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单词 eyes drop millstones
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(his) eyes drop millstones
P2. (his) eyes drop millstones and variants [perhaps suggested by the hyperbolical phrase in quot. c1460] : he (etc.) is hard-hearted, unlikely to weep sincerely. Cf. sense 2c. Obsolete.
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c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. 35 Teris..As grete as eny mylstone.]
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 351 Your eies drop milstones when fooles [printed fooIes] eies drop tears. View more context for this quotation
?1606 Tragedie of Cæsar & Pompey ii. iv. sig. C 3 Mens eyes must mil-stones drop, when fooles shed teares.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. ii. 140 Queene Hecuba laught that her eyes ran ore. Cres. With milstones. View more context for this quotation
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iv. iii. 58 Fortune. He, good gentleman, Will weep when he hears how we are us'd. 1 Serjeant. Yes milstones.
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