| 单词 | good wine needs no ivybush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgood wine needs no ivy-bush (a) A bushy branch of ivy; figurative a place of concealment or retirement. †(b) spec. A bush of ivy or a representation of it, placed outside a tavern as a sign that wine was sold there; often in phrase good wine needs no ivy-bush; hence, the tavern itself (obsolete). Cf. bush n.1 5 †Hence figurative. A sign or display (of anything) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] hidelsc975 hidela1300 bushc1330 hulkc1330 derna1340 tapissinga1340 coverta1375 hiding1382 loting-placea1398 cover14.. hiding placec1440 mewa1450 closetc1450 hole1483 cure1502 secret1530 shrouding place1571 ivy-bush1576 coney burrowa1586 hidlings1597 foxhole1606 shrouding corner1610 recess1611 subterfuge1616 latibule1623 latebra1626 blind1646 privacy1648 hide1649 retreat1697 rathole1770 hidey-hole1817 tod hole1846 hulster1880 hideout1885 cwtch1890 castle1898 lurk1906 stash1927 hideaway1930 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house houseOE tavern1297 tavern-housea1400 sunc1400 tap-house1500 tippling-housea1549 innsc1550 bousing-inn1575 ivy-bush1576 osteria1580 ordinary1590 caback1591 taberna1593 bousing-house1594 pothouse1598 red lattice1604 cupping-house1615 public house1617 busha1625 Wirtshaus1650 bibbery1653 cabaret1656 gaming ordinary1667 public1685 shop1695 bibbing-housea1704 dram-shop1725 gill house1728 rum shop1738 buvette1753 dram-house1753 grog-shop1790 wine-vault1791 pub1800 pulperia1818 pulqueria1822 potation-shop1823 rum hole1825 Wirtschaft1834 drunkery1836 pot shop1837 drinkery1840 rum mill1844 khazi1846 beer-shop1848 boozer1895 rub-a-dub1898 Weinstube1899 rubbity-dub1905 peg house1922 rub-a-dub-dub1932 rubbity1941 Stube1946 superpub1964 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > tavern sign lion?a1366 ale stake1396 ivy14.. sunc1400 tokenc1440 eagle1449 chequerc1460 wisp?1507 Saracen's head1510 ale-pole1523 bush1532 wine garland1533 ivy-garland1553 tavern-bush1553 lattice1575 ivy-bush1576 alebush1599 red lattice1604 elephanta1616 sagittarya1616 grate1622 wine-bush1638 popinjay1687 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental vine > [noun] > ivy > branch, leaf, berry, or juice ivy-cropc1000 ivy-berryc1400 gum ivy?1550 ivy-bush1576 ivy-twine1597 ivy-bind1731 ivy-resin1753 ivy-gum1855 1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Hegendorphinus in Panoplie Epist. 382 Hee is never from the Ivie bush: his lippes are alwayes staynd with the Juice of Bacchus his berries. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues Ep. Ded. sig. Aiij When the Wyne is neete there needeth no Iuie-bush. 1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 185 Womens beauty..is like vnto an Iuy bush, that cals men to the tauern, but hangs itselfe withoute to winde and wether. 1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-drawer 4 Then Tobacco was an Indian, vnpickt and vnpiped, now made the common Iuy-bush of luxury. 1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος i. 14 This Ivye-bush of boasting doth but shew the badnesse of his wine. 1699 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. (ed. 4) §94 An old Boy at his first appearance, with all the Gravity of his Ivy-Bush about him, is sure to draw on him the Eyes and Chirping of the whole Town Volery. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 94 Pr'ythee how did the Fool look?.. Col. Look? Egad he look'd for all the World like an Owl in an Ivy Bush. 1823 A. Clarke Mem. Wesley Family 232 Mr. Wesley gave out the following line; ‘Like to an owl in ivy-bush’. 1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 262 Like an owl in an ivy-bush. good wine needs no (ivy)bush new wine in old bottles (see Matthew ix. 17). to look on the wine when it is red (see Proverbs xxiii. 31). good wine needs no (ivy)bush (see also bush n.1 5c, ivy-bush n.). when wine is in, wit (or truth) is out. wine and women (Ecclus. xix. heading, King James Bible); also wine, women, and song [compare (esp. with use in quots. 1839, 1862) German Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang, der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang (‘whoever does not love wine, woman, and song remains a fool his whole life long’), frequently attributed to Luther, but not found in his writings.] extracted from winen.1< as lemmas |
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