caviar to the general

Philip French writing in The Observer described the film as "caviar to the general, but an elegant treat for cinephiles."

Browne stated in a televised biographical interview broadcast on UK Channel 4 in 1990 (entitled Caviar to the General) that she bought the rights to the play, borrowing money from her dentist to do so.

Any portrait of this literary conservationist is likely to be caviar to the general, the superabundance among his lovers and friends of names with double barrels giving to the unhyphenated reader the impression of having wandered into a tremendous pheasant shoot.

In a televised documentary Caviar to the General broadcast on UK Channel 4 in 1990, shortly before her death, Coral Browne humorously described her reaction to seeing the stage version of An Englishman Abroad, particularly expressing her irritation at the costumes.

In 1936, she had played Shakespeare's Cleopatra at the New Theatre, returning to London in 1947 as a female Russian general in a farce which she co-authored, Caviar To The General, which temporarily displaced Phyllis Dixey at the Whitehall.

At least one language authority sees the word Hamlet-like , then, as "self-expository," with no negative connotation of indecisiveness; however, this intellectual interpretation is nose-wrinkling caviar to the general public, which sees a tide in the affairs of men leading on to fortune and prefers a decisive Caesar to a thoughtful Hamlet.