The host generally pays, and no one needs to hear you gripe about appetizer prices or shrimpcount.
His biggest gripe is with foie gras, which is basically the liver of a goose that has been force-fed to death.
But, as he proceeded, a terrible fascination, a kind of fierce, though still calm, necessity seized the old man within its gripe, and never set him free again, until he had done all its bidding.
Iraqi businessmen gripe that CNN exaggerates the violence in their country, but it is real enough.
A new gripe is that, by lending America so much money, China helped inflate the asset bubble that has now burst so painfully.
Only in los Angeles will the fans whine and gripe... then secretly hope the guy sitting in front of them will give up his seats so they can sit closer.
Britons, however, have fewer reasons than most to gripe about the obscurity of laureates.
Lila has also learned that if she interrupts her daughter during a gripe session, Marta, like most kids, ends up feeling frustrated all over again.
My only gripe about the hotel was the food.
The Chinese-educated complain that young people know nothing about poetry from the ancient Tang and Song dynasty while the English-educated gripe about them not knowing the works of Shakespeare.
They gripe about young cooks who use lashings of new ingredients, like mayonnaise, and recall neglected classics, like sliced pig kidneys Fried in fermented bean paste.
My only gripe is that one main course and one dessert were unavailable.
Losing Defoe and Kaboul to suspension would be my only gripe, but we've got Dawson and Gallas back from injury, which has been a real boost.
Poorer regions gripe, with reason, that this is unfair.
My main gripe is, there's no hot water.
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