| 单词 | fairy gold |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy gold fairy gold n. gold belonging to or given by fairies, traditionally supposed to disappear or to change into something worthless when touched or used by humans; also figurative. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 119 This is Faiery Gold boy..: vp with't, keepe it close. View more context for this quotation 1678 T. Rymer Edgar iii. vi. 36 Chymist..With wishing eyes pursues his Faiery Gold. 1737 Some Refl. conc. Reduction Gold Coin Ireland 8 He may fancy himself very Rich..but when he comes to a Foreign Market, he will find it all imaginary veryfying his Grandam's Tales of Fairy-Gold. 1798 H. M. Williams Tour Switzerland I. 17 Their magnificent commercial profits were a sort of fairy-gold, which, when touched, turned to sand. 1888 All Year Round 4 Aug. 97/2 The Cohen wealth had disappeared..like so much fairy-gold. 1916 F. S. Oliver Ordeal by Battle 6 Words stumble after truth, like children chasing a rainbow across a meadow to find the pot of fairy gold. 2008 J. Lathrop Desert Contract 183 It might be like fairy gold: it might disappear in the morning. < as lemmas |
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