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Значение идиомы brown-bagger

[brown-bagger] {n.}, {slang}, {informal} A person who does not go to the cafeteria or to a restaurant for lunch at work, but who brings his homemade lunch to work in order to save money.

John became a brown-bagger not because he can’t afford the restaurant, but because he is too busy to go there.


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