buy me a cup of good wine

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GoodTaste

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Does "buy me a cup of good wine" sound natural in English?

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Two braggers were in a competition.

Bragger A: Let's go to Massachusetts to buy out the Harvard University.
Bragger B: A poor option. How about creating two or more Harvard Universities?
Bragger A: A good idea. But how? Money alone cannot even solve the question of qualified faculty. Can money buy a professor Albert Einstein? And, where to invite him?
Bragger B: OK. Let's come back to the reality. Let me tell you: Reality is the best university in the world. Why Harvard? You are the loser in the competiion because you've followed a cliche that doesn't work. Better buy me a cup of good wine and I will let you go.
 
Not to me. Not in that context.
 
Say:

Let's come back to reality.

No the.
 
Say:

Let's come back to reality.

No the.


Google search results: About 2,860,000 results for "come back to reality"
About 23,100,000 results for "come back to the reality"

That is, "come back to the reality" is far more common that "come back to reality".

So I am not sure which is better in the context of the OP.
 
I guess you are going to do a Google search every time I give you advice?

You are not going to change my mind by using Google.

Google is not my standard.

:-|
 
Google search results: About 2,860,000 results for "come back to reality"
About 23,100,000 results for "come back to the reality"

That is, "come back to the reality" is far more common that "come back to reality".

So I am not sure which is better in the context of the OP.
There are many ways that "come back to the reality" can fit into a sentence, but yours is not one of them. This might be a good time for you to come back to the reality that native speakers know their language better than an intermediate learner does.

Thread closed because the OP has once again suggested that native speakers are wrong about their own language.
 
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