英语词汇“food for powder”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

e. to be food for (also †to) worms (also dogs, etc.): to be dead (cf. worms' food at worm n. 6c). to be food for fishes: to be drowned. food for powder: soldiers, esp. low-ranking recruits, collectively regarded as expendable in war.

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the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die of drowning

adrinkeOE

drunkenc950

drenchc1000

adrenchc1230

drenklec1330

drown1382

fordrench1430

to be food for fishes1561

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > [noun] > collectively > regarded as material

food for powder1598

cannon fodder1847

gun-fodder1900

1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vi. sig. Qi^v To day with myrthe alyue, and foode to wormes within a whyle.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. ii. 65 Good inough to tosse, foode for powder, foode for powder, theile fill a pit as well as better.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 85 Hot. No Percy thou art dust And food for. Pr. For wormes, braue Percy.

1682 E. Settle Heir of Morocco i. i. 8 If you but let him stir,..(Observe me well) thou'rt Food for Dogs and Vultures.

1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. xli. 241 Well, my noble fellow! How are you? You took my prescription? I see you did, you would have been food for worms if you hadn't.

1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. 401 Far from home on the raging sea, in danger of being food for fishes.

1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. 21 I have heard him smack his lips over dinners, every guest at which, except himself, had long been food for worms.

1875 F. G. Holland in Scribner's Monthly (1879) 8 Mar. 528/1 No new-fledged concern were they, hastily recruited from any ‘rag-tag and bob-tail’ to serve as mere food for powder.

1928 F. M. Ford Last Post v. 122 There was no sense in offering a fellow who might be going to become food for powder the management of great possessions.

1930 PMLA 45 1238 Women die, become food for worms in graves, and are forgotten.

1990 C. R. Johnson Middle Passage (1991) vi. 138 Cringle..crawled back out, his free hand leading two figures I had given up as food for the sharks.

单词	food for powder
释义	> as lemmas food for powder e. to be food for (also †to) worms (also dogs, etc.): to be dead (cf. worms' food at worm n. 6c). to be food for fishes: to be drowned. food for powder: soldiers, esp. low-ranking recruits, collectively regarded as expendable in war. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die of drowning adrinkeOE drunkenc950 drenchc1000 adrenchc1230 drenklec1330 drown1382 fordrench1430 to be food for fishes1561 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > [noun] > collectively > regarded as material food for powder1598 cannon fodder1847 gun-fodder1900 1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vi. sig. Qi^v To day with myrthe alyue, and foode to wormes within a whyle. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. ii. 65 Good inough to tosse, foode for powder, foode for powder, theile fill a pit as well as better. View more context for this quotation 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 85 Hot. No Percy thou art dust And food for. Pr. For wormes, braue Percy. View more context for this quotation 1682 E. Settle Heir of Morocco i. i. 8 If you but let him stir,..(Observe me well) thou'rt Food for Dogs and Vultures. 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. xli. 241 Well, my noble fellow! How are you? You took my prescription? I see you did, you would have been food for worms if you hadn't. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. 401 Far from home on the raging sea, in danger of being food for fishes. 1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. 21 I have heard him smack his lips over dinners, every guest at which, except himself, had long been food for worms. 1875 F. G. Holland in Scribner's Monthly (1879) 8 Mar. 528/1 No new-fledged concern were they, hastily recruited from any ‘rag-tag and bob-tail’ to serve as mere food for powder. 1928 F. M. Ford Last Post v. 122 There was no sense in offering a fellow who might be going to become food for powder the management of great possessions. 1930 PMLA 45 1238 Women die, become food for worms in graves, and are forgotten. 1990 C. R. Johnson Middle Passage (1991) vi. 138 Cringle..crawled back out, his free hand leading two figures I had given up as food for the sharks. extracted from foodn. food for powder c. food for powder: see food n. 1e. extracted from powdern.¹ < as lemmas
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