Usually means: Reminder of mortality at celebrations.
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  1. skeleton at the feast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. skeleton at the feast: Wiktionary
  3. skeleton at the feast: Dictionary.com
  4. Skeleton at the Feast: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
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Definitions from Wiktionary (skeleton at the feast)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) One whose presence brings gloom to a joyous occasion.
▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A reminder of death, a memento mori.

Similar:
skelet, worm food, atrate, shadow, ottomy, gloomies, epulation, morbs, feastinge, sombre, more...

Opposite:
life of party, center of attention, extrovert

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Similar:
skelet, worm food, atrate, shadow, ottomy, gloomies, epulation, morbs, feastinge, sombre, more...

Opposite:
life of party, center of attention, extrovert



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