| 单词 | devil's paternoster |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdevil's paternoster ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > curse > [noun] > as everyday imprecation > muttered devil's paternosterc1405 the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > oaths other than religious or obscene > imprecations murrainc1400 devil's paternosterc1405 back-pater-noster1561 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §508 Yet wol they seyn harm and grucche and murmure priuely..whiche wordes men clepen the deueles Pater noster. c1450 (c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) (1942) 65 (MED) He gruccheþ aȝens God and syngeþ þe pater noster also, but forsoþe it is þe deueles pater noster. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 642/1 I murmure, I make a noyse, I bydde the dyuels Pater noster. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. E Pattryng the diuels pater noster to her selfe. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iv. iv. 40 O monstrous! A Prayer-Book? Ay, this is the Devil's Pater-noster. Hold, let me see; The Innocent Adultery. 1892 Quiver 152/2 Not seldom the master of a house piously says grace before dinner, and then a veritable devil's paternoster of grumbling as he partakes of each dish that succeeds it. 1909 E. J. Hardy How to be Happy though Civil xxi. 211 Why should we use ‘the devil's paternoster’, as grumbling has been called, rather than Te Deums? < as lemmas |
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