ProverbWisdom
Latin origin
Latin originAfter dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.
Meaning: Digestion benefits from rest after heavy meals and movement after light ones.
Origin: Advice on digestion from the days when dinner was the main meal, eaten at midday, and supper a light one in the evening. The rule was already current in medieval Latin — post prandium stabis, post coenam ambulabis, after lunch stand still, after supper walk about — and English kept it as a rhyme.
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