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I've noticed that you are looking down on to the table to find the knife before picking it up to clink the glass.
If you clink the link, you'll also see what Sega wore to the gig: a Humpty Dance T-shirt and a baseball hat that mimics Grover's head.
This kind of thing — a Dutchman from 1800 speaking English like Bill Sikes — goes with the fictional territory, I suppose, and Mitchell, to be fair, is alert to the misprision of translation and cultural transmission: the book has many scenes in which fumbling Dutchmen and Japanese clink the cracked cups of their different languages together, while meaning leaks away.
When I politely decline, explaining I am driving, they get me to "clink" the bottle with my fist as a sign of friendship.
So, for those sitting down with family this holiday, don't skip the traditional rituals – sing the songs, pull the crackers, clink the glasses and listen to your uncle repeat his funny anecdotes for the hundredth time.
This is a time to bring yourself to the table--to think - to live and ask the questions to laugh - to drink beer, to peel off the labels and clink the green glass.
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The woman laughed liltingly; glasses clinked; the good life was elsewhere.
When that didn't work, she tried clinking the glass with her knife.
Donna Greer gently swirled the wine in her glass and clinked the stemware against her husband's.
Pascal waited for her to return to the kitchen before raising his drink toward Tiye and clinking the top of his bottle with his.
Silverware rattled and bottles clinked; the people at the next table were having a meeting that I couldn't help but overhear.
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