| 单词 | farewell fieldfare |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfarewell fieldfare Proverb. farewell fieldfare and variants: (perhaps) ‘good riddance to you’. Now revived in literary (esp. poetic) use as a valediction.In quot. a1413 perhaps: ‘it is too late to do anything about it’, ‘all is lost’.Apparently with allusion to the fieldfare's departure northward at the end of winter. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > implying rejection farewell fieldfarea1413 twenty-three skidoo1926 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 861 The harm is don, and fare wel feld-fare [?a1425 Harl. 3943 feldyfare]. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5510 But..synge go fare wel feldfare. a1456 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 429 I..sange ‘Go, farewell feldfare’, As man forsake in euery place. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 64 Gude nicht now feldifair, Fair on fond fuill. 1869 Notes & Queries 20 Feb. 180/2 Farewell feldefare is farewell, fieldfare! It is clearly a proverb expressing ‘go, and never mind what becomes of you.’ 1939 L. Powys Love & Death xxix. 278 The old sexton..was at work upon a grave near the eastern wall. Farewell, fieldfare! It was the very wall below which Dittany and I had often walked in bright summer sunshine. 1999 B. O'Donoghue Here not There 44 ‘Farewell, Fieldfare!’ we said to them and to their kind. < as lemmas |
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