| 单词 | a creaking gate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa creaking gate That creaks: see the verb. a creaking gate (also creaky adj.), in proverbial phrases (see quots.). ΚΠ 1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 29v The creking Crow and carrion Kight. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. M Some creeking goose. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 111 Creaking Grashoppers. View more context for this quotation 1776 T. Cogan John Buncle I. vi. 239 But they say a creaking gates [sic] goes the longest upon its hinges. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xx. 253 What man can ever expect to be loved who wears creaking shoes? 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 266 ‘A creaking gate hangs longest on the hinges.’ Used figuratively of an invalid, who outlives an apparently healthier person. 1888 F. Hume Madame Midas ii. ii. 127 It is said that ‘creaking doors hang the longest’. 1944 A. Christie Towards Zero 62 But it seems I am one of these creaking gates—these perpetual invalids who never die. < as lemmas |
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