| 单词 | heart of butter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheart of butter a. A person's heart, temperament, etc., likened to butter in being soft, yielding, or easily melted. Esp. in heart of butter. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > a tender heart butter1594 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. C3v Truly sir my heart is made of butter, it melts at the least persecution. 1703 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote III. xxix. 287 What dost thou cry for?... Who hurts thee, thou dastardly Craven, thou Cowardly Mouse, thou Soul of a Milksop, thou Heart of Butter? 1851 H. Mayhew 1851 ii. 17 Sandboys, though naturally possessed of a heart of butter, delighted to assure himself that he carried about a flint in his bosom. 1910 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Bazar Feb. 119/2 Martin Luther and Joan of Arc..—that splendid pair equipped with temperaments not made of butter, but of asbestos. 1979 S. Sondheim By the Sea, Pt. 2 (MS sheet music) 6 Me eyelids'll flutter, I'll turn into butter, The moment I mutter, ‘I do-hoo!’ 2010 E. Lorello Ordinary World (rev. ed.) ii. 10 That mild tenor that reduced me to butter every time he read to me. < as lemmas |
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