Full Definition of SMORGASBORD. 1. : a luncheon or supper buffet offering a variety of foods and dishes (as hors d'oeuvres, hot and cold meats, smoked and pickled fish, cheeses, salads, and relishes).2. : an often large heterogeneous mixture: melange. mÃ©lange a luncheon or supper buffet offering a variety of foods and dishes (as hors d'oeuvres, hot and cold meats, smoked and pickled fish, cheeses, salads, and relishes).
Generational theft is a phrase you can expect to be hearingâ¦ (Jewel Samad / AFP/Gettyâ¦) Here's a phrase you can expect to be hearing a lot in the national debate over fiscal policy, as we move past the sequester, which is the crisis du jour, and toward the budget cliff/government shutdown deadline looming at the end of March: Generational theft.. The core idea the term expresses is that we're spending so much more on our seniors than our children that future generations are being cheated. An important corollary is that the government debt we incur today will come slamming down upon the shoulders of our children and grandchildren.
The Lost Generation was a term originally used to identify a group of American literary expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s; it is now used more generally to describe the generation of young people who came of age in the United States during and shortly after World War I.