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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Lap up

"In another setting - at another time - this gathering of the elite of Germany's powerful business community would have lapped up the British wit." (BBC News.)

What does "this gathering... would have lapped up the British wit" exactly mean in the context above?
  

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Thank you, GPY, for the reply.

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