| 单词 | fiddler's green |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFiddler's Green b. Fiddler's Green (Nautical): ‘a sailor's elysium, in which wine, women, and song figure prominently’ (Farmer). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun] heaveneOE land of behesta1200 Cockaigne?c1335 Fortunate Islands?a1475 eutopia1553 utopia1601 horny gate (also port)1605 nonsucha1618 Americaa1631 El Dorado1788 other world1804 Cockneyland1817 cloud-cuckoo-land1824 Fiddler's Green1825 dreamland1832 Neverland1892 never-never land1900 Big Rock Candy Mountain1917 brave new world1933 Xanadu1948 Disneyland1956 ecotopia1975 the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > paradise > Elysium or Elysian field(s) > of sailors Fiddler's Green1825 1825 Sporting Mag. 16 404 My grannan..used to tell me that animals, when they departed this life, were destined to be fixed in Fidler's Green. 1836 W. H. Maxwell Capt. Blake I. xv. (note) It is..believed that tailors and musicians after death are cantoned in a place called ‘Fiddler's Green’. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. ix. 98 We shape a course for Fidler's Green. 1883 J. D. J. Kelly in Harper's Mag. Aug. 441/2 The pilotless narrows which lead to Fiddler's Green, where all good sailors go. < as lemmas |
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