| 单词 | grey mare |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey mare grey mare n. [after the grey mare is the better horse at Phrases 1a] a wife who is the dominant or more competent partner in a marriage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > domineering wife archwifec1386 grey mare1700 henpeck1730 1700 R. Cromwell Let. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1898) 13 117 Shee tells him (as being the gray mare) he could not goe. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 116 The gray mare Is ill to live with, when her whinny shrills From tile to scullery. 1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind xxii. 183 The grey-mare may keep down the husband who chose her,..but she cannot restrain her growing-up sons. 1916 M. Hine Individual iv. xxi. 302 A strong character. She's the grey mare in that ménage. 2008 G. Wills tr. Martial Epigrams 197 You have the husband's latch-key, he has none; You are the grey mare, Polla, when all's done. < as lemmas |
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