单词 | comings and goings |
释义 | > as lemmascomings and goings comings and goings n. (also goings and comings) [after to come and go at come v. Phrases 1a] the busy movements of a person or group of people, esp. in and out of a place; activity, bustle; also occasionally in singular. ΚΠ 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War i. xvi. f. xliiii Howe after many goinges and commynges, the Athenyans dyd put it into deliberation whither they shulde rather accepte the warre, or, obey to the requestes of the Lacedemonyans. 1640 S. Rutherford Let in Joshua Redivivus (1664) ii. 503 I hope..that, as becometh a Christian, ye take him up aright (for many mistake and misshape Christ) in his comings and goings. 1799 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. 3 App. 516 This put an end to the comings and goings of the secret emissaries of the Convention. 1892 E. E. Hale & L. P. Hale New Harry & Lucy xxiv. 316 One day, int he midst of all the going and coming of which I have been writing to you, Cousin Maria and I were sitting in a pretty upstairs room, [etc.]. 1928 Cent. Mag. May 125/1 ‘Rainbow Round My Shoulder’ is a chronicle of battles, bullies, dice games, feasts.., endless goings and comings, all pitched in superlatives and double-dipped in tar. 1952 J. L. Waten Alien Son 87 Auntie Fanny lived her own life, never commenting on her husband's whirlwind comings and goings. 1989 A. Cameron Tales of Cairds 18 With all the coming and going, to-ing and fro-ing happening over where Noah toiled, nobody noticed..Banba and Cessair. 2014 Australian (Nexis) 20 Dec. (Inquirer section) 20 In the weekly Australasian, Clarke wrote often outlandish accounts about the comings and goings at the club. < as lemmas |
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