| 单词 | a wife in every port |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa wife in every port P3. a wife in every port and variants: used allusively to refer to the numerous and geographically widespread lovers or sexual partners of a sailor (or, in later use, anyone who travels widely). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [phrase] > relations enjoyed by sailors a wife in every portc1690 c1690 Mothers Kindness (single sheet) A Saylor is a cunning Knave, who does all sorts of women Court, It is well known that they will have, a wife or friend at e'ery Port. 1761 I. Bickerstaff Thomas & Sally i. iii. 5 'Tis pretty sport, for one that gets a wife at ev'ry port. 1806 Universal Mag. New Ser. May 429/2 If it be true, as asserted of the heroes of the ocean, that they find a wife in every port, it is as certainly true of those ramblers, the modern minstrels, that they find a mistress in every country. 1878 W. H. Mallock New Paul & Virginia (ed. 2) iv. 24 The captain in particular, who had a wife in every port he touched at, was overjoyed at hearing that there was no hell. 1907 Punch 22 May 365/2 (caption) Admiral. And what made you wish to become a sailor, my boy? Navy Candidate (in perfect good faith). Because he's got a wife in every port, sir. 1933 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Smile & Tear xi. 132 ‘The wife in every port’, supposed to be the perquisite of sailors, is no more than the constant aspiration of every self-respecting dog. 1985 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 5 Jan. 6/3 His friend Arjuna like a sailor has a wife in every port. 2011 J. Balcom in tr. Huang Fan Zero & Other Fictions p. ix Huang has simply taken real-life accounts of Taiwanese businessmen with a wife in every port and produced an allegory in which [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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