| 单词 | angel in the house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasangel in the house P6. angel in the house: (the type of) a woman likened to an angel presiding over the home; an idealized housewife or homemaker who shows selfless devotion to her husband and children. Cf. domestic goddess n. at domestic adj. and n. Additions.Popularized by Coventry Patmore's sequence of poems ‘The Angel in the House’ (1854–62), a sentimental tribute to married life and the Victorian feminine ideal. ΚΠ 1847 D. M. Mulock in Dublin Univ. Mag. June 688/1 Philip Armytage had, in truth, ‘an angel in the house’. 1880 Blackburn Standard 8 May 4/6 Woman's true sphere is not..in the polling booth. It is rather [as]..the ‘angel in the house’ that she should seek to distinguish herself. 1931 V. Woolf Speech to Soc. for Women's Service in Ess. (2009) V. 638 The Angel in the House..excelled in the difficult arts of family life. She soothed, conciliated, sacrificed herself.., and in short was so constituted that she never had a wish or mind of her own. 1975 F. King Southern Ladies & Gentlemen iii. 46 The specter of unflagging virtue has haunted all women since time immemorial; the angel in the house simply will not leave. 2007 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 30 Sept. 13/4 Whether scripted as ‘angels in the house’ or slandered as whores for the sexual freedom that enhances a man's prowess, women continue to struggle against the restrictions of patriarchy. < as lemmas |
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