In a message dated 10/5/2005 7:46:27 PM Mountain Daylight Time, gbuchana@rogers.com writes:
I hope I need not remind you that it *is* the holy month
of Ramadan, and therefore fasting is expected.  A devout
Muslim might well be offended by your tacit encouragement
to break the fast by eating a free lunch!
Good grief.
 
Leave it alone. I don't drink beer, but the phrase is idiomatic and therefore should be accepted as an idiom.
 

Anne

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