| 单词 | happy is the bride the sun shines on |
| 释义 | > as lemmashappy (also blessed) is the bride the sun shines on P2. Proverb. happy (also blessed) is the bride the sun shines on and variants: used to express the superstition that good fortune will attend the marriage of a bride whose wedding is on a sunny day.Sometimes used in conjunction with the phrase blessed is the corpse the rain falls on at rain n.1 Phrases 2. ΚΠ 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. K Some repeat Your praise, and..others doe divine; Blest is the Bride, on whom the Sun doth shine. 1777 Hist. Miss Maria Barlowe II. lxxiii. 223 They say happy is the bride that it shines upon. Superstition, you see, is not satisfied without blazing sunshine in the midst of Winter. 1823 J. Gamble Charlton III. ii. 57 ‘Happy is the bride that the sun shines on; and blessed is the corpse that the rain rains on’; muttered he. 1889 Wellesley Prelude (Wellesley Coll., Mass.) 9 Nov. 123/2 ‘Blessed is the bride that the sun shines on,’ said the friends of Miss Soule,..rejoicing in the first bright Monday morning in weeks. 1935 H. M. Hyatt Folk-lore Adams County, Illinois 365 Happy is the bride the sun shines on, Tears for the bride the rain falls on. 2012 S. Challis Lonely Desert 11 ‘Lucky rain!’ ‘Happy the bride the sun shines on!’ I reminded him, ever the pessimist. < as lemmas |
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