| 单词 | iron and fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasiron and fire a. Iron weaponry, as swords, spears, etc. Chiefly in various allusive expressions referring to warfare or slaughter, as iron and fire. Cf. sense 7, blood and iron n. Now literary and poetic.to eat iron: see eat v. 2d. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > [noun] MarsOE war1154 warc1374 irona1387 guerre?a1475 Mart?a1475 (the) feat of warc1503 militia1641 sport of kings1735 emergency1958 the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] sleightc893 wal-slaught?a900 qualeeOE deathOE swordc1000 morthOE slaughta1225 destroyingc1300 drepingc1300 martyrdomc1325 murderc1325 mortc1330 sleighterc1330 slaughter1338 iron and firea1387 murraina1387 manslaughtera1400 martyre?a1400 quella1425 occision?a1430 decease1513 destruction1526 slaughting1535 butchery?1536 butchering1572 massacrea1578 slaughterdom1592 slaughtering1597 carnage1600 massacring1600 slaughtery1604 internecion1610 decimationa1613 destroy1616 trucidation1623 stragea1632 sword-wrack1646 interemption1656 carnifice1657 panolethry1668 butcher work1808 bloodbath1814 populicide1824 man-slaughtering1851 battue1864 mass murder1917 genocide1944 overkill1957 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xiv. 204 Penda Mercna cyning cwom mid Mercna here in þa stowe, & all þa ðæ he meahte, mid iserne & fyres lege [L. ferro flammaque] fornom & forleas. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xvii. 173 Þa wearð þæt earme mennisc, for heora mandædum, sum mid hungre acweald, sum mid heardum isene. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 1030 Hom ne mai halter ne bridel Bringe vrom hore wude wise, Ne mon mid stele ne mid ire [perh. read ise]. c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 6 Ne ire [a1400 Egerton yren] ne steil ne mai þe sle. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 219 [Alaric] destroyed al..wiþ yre and wiþ fuyre [L. ferro et igne]. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxiii. f. liv Wastynge, and destroyinge the Countrey with Fyre and Irne. 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 66v To make way..through fieldes of Iron, and streames of blood, to that imperiall dignitie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 245 Meddle you must that's certain, or forsweare to weare iron about you. View more context for this quotation 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 163 What perils do inviron The Man that meddles with cold Iron! 1702 Earl of Peterborough et al. tr. J. de Torreil in tr. Demosthenes Several Orations Pref. 86 This last, after he had sudued [sic] Gaul with Roman Iron, subdued Rome with Gallic Gold. 1795 tr. L. S. Mercier Fragm. Politics & Hist. I. 13 The wild beasts, struck with alarm, abandon their dens to men, who, with iron and fire, open spacious alleys in woods. 1847 Niles' National Reg. 11 Sept. 22/3 Their lands are mortgaged to the foreigner; they are too indolent and powerless to redeem them either with the gold of labor or the iron of war. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 355 Charge Troy's children afield and fell them grimly with iron. 1898 Daily News 1 Aug. 4/7 Bismarck..is known throughout the world as ‘the man of blood and iron’. The phrase was his own. Great questions (he said) are decided, not by speeches and majorities, but by iron and blood (1862). 1915 New Eng. Mag. Mar. 213/1 Iron of battle whose harvesting shall yield A fruit of death. 1992 E. Pearce Election Rides xvi. 155 By all accounts the sort of woman given to ruling provinces with fire and iron. < as lemmas |
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