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单词 from the womb to the tomb
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from the womb to the tomb
a. from the womb to the tomb and variants: from birth to death; from the cradle to the grave (cf. cradle n. 2).
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1576 G. Gascoigne tr. Pope Innocent III 1st Bk. Vewe Worldly Vanities in Droomme of Doomes Day i. sig. A.j Then had I bene as if I were not, transferred from the Wombe to the Tombe.
1620 J. Lewis Ignis Cœlestis Ded. sig. A2 Betweene the wombe and the tombe, the cradle and the graue, there is but a spans breadth.
1691 in E. Walker Epictetus (1692) sig. A1v All good and perfect Gifts..Which Mortals have from th' Womb unto the Tomb.
a1708 W. Beveridge Private Thoughts Relig. (1709) vi. 70 I follow my Saviour from the Womb to the Tomb, from his Incarnation to his Death.
1783 E. Arthur Serm. Var. Subj. xi. 251 From the womb to the tomb he was a man of sorrows.
1820 H. Wintle Christian Traveller 23 If in faith we follow him from the womb to his tomb..what strong consolation have we!
1857 J. M. Roe Poems 30 From the womb to the tomb, From the cradle to the grave, From pattering feet to the winding sheet.
1920 J. G. Huneker Steeplejack I. xvi. 189 To fill in the seemingly interminable interval from womb to tomb, man invented politics, money, wine, cards, war, love, and religion.
1968 G. Jackson Let. 29 June in Soledad Brother (1971) 163 From the womb to the tomb this plays in our minds. We are not worth more than the amount of capital we can raise.
1991 J. Kingdom Local Govt. & Politics in Brit. i. 4 Local government has tended our welfare needs from womb to tomb, from sperm to worm.
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