| 单词 | a word in a person's ear |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa word in a person's ear c. colloquial. a word in a person's ear: a brief confidential comment or observation. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > message > [noun] errandc890 bodec1275 bodeworda1325 messagec1325 sendingc1400 credence1424 a word in a person's ear1566 credency1620 intermessage1691 telegram1852 memorandum1899 1566 L. Wager Life & Repentaunce Marie Magdalene sig. E.iii I pray you let me haue a worde in your eare. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. ii. 27 Come you hither sirra, a word in your eare sir. View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 457 (1713) VI. 343 Every one of my Customers will be very well pleased with me, when he considers that every Piece of News I send him is a Word in his Ear, and lets him into a Secret. 1770 R. Cumberland Brothers ii. iii. 17 Mr. Paterson! hist, Mr. Paterson! a word in your ear, sweet Sir. 1838 C. Dickens Let. 25 Jan. (1965) I. 360 A word in your ear. Macready objected to Talfourd's play. 1921 J. Buchan Path of King iv. 84 And a word in your ear, my lord. The Ilkhan permits few to cross his eastern marches. 1950 Times 22 Sept. 6/6 But here a word in your ear: the reconstructed stage of La Scala has many more trapdoors than has our old opera house. 2000 S. McKay Northern Protestants 360 He got a council house for his family in the new White City estate in Dungannon, after a word in the ear of a Unionist councillor. < as lemmas |
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