| 单词 | high heaven | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh heaven  b.  With emphatic or superlative force, in  high God,  high heaven. ΚΠ OE    Riddle 40 22  				Se ana god se þisne hean heofon healdeþ ond wealdeþ. OE    Paris Psalter 		(1932)	 cxliv. 1  				Ic me heahne god hæbbe to kyninge. lOE    tr.  Alcuin De Virtutibus et Vitiis 		(Vesp.)	 in  R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies 		(1917)	 98  				Se heage God gesihð þa eadmedan. a1425						 (c1395)						    Bible 		(Wycliffite, L.V.)	 		(Royal)	 		(1850)	 Deeds vii. 48  				The hiȝ God dwellith not in thingis maad bi hoond. 1590    E. Spenser Faerie Queene  iii. vi. sig. Hh2  				Whence all the world deriues the glorious Features of beautie, and all shapes select, With which high God his workmanship hath deckt. a1616    W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure 		(1623)	  ii. ii. 124  				Man, proud man, Drest in a little briefe authoritie..Plaies such phantastique tricks before high heauen, As makes the Angels  weepe.       View more context for this quotation 1707    S. Cobb Poems 51  				Whene'er High God shall whet his angry Sword, The Rising Sun shall see True Faith restor'd. 1833    J. E. Alexander Transatlantic Sketches II. i. 4  				‘They won't be able to face you..without a fleet.’ ‘Oh! tarnation, no..nothing under high heaven; we will knock h—ll out of them.’ 1859    Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in  Idylls of King 254  				Hereafter..We two may meet before high God. 1915    D. A. Mackenzie Myths Babylonia & Assyria vii. 147  				Then he made the abode of Ea in the deep, and the abode of Anu in high heaven. a1935    W. Lewis Journey into Barbary 		(1983)	 214  				A position of abject submission to a High God. 1997    T. Petsinis French Mathematician 		(1998)	 xx. 186  				The acrid stench of sewers rising to high heaven. < as lemmas | 
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