| 单词 | as dead as a dodo |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) dead as the (or a) dodo b. dead as a door-nail, dead as a herring: completely or certainly dead. Also, (as) dead as the (or a) dodo, ( (as) dead as mutton. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] deadOE lifelessOE of lifeOE storvena1225 dead as a door-nail1362 ydead1387 stark deadc1390 colda1400 bypast1425 perishedc1440 morta1450 obita1450 unquickc1449 gone?a1475 dead and gone1482 extinct1483 departed1503 bygonea1522 amort1546 soulless1553 breathless1562 parted1562 mortified1592 low-laid1598 disanimate1601 carcasseda1603 defunct1603 no morea1616 with God1617 death-stricken1618 death-strucken1622 expired1631 past itc1635 incinerated1657 stock-dead1662 dead as a herring1664 death-struck1688 as dead as a nit1789 (as) dead as mutton1792 low1808 laid in the locker1815 strae-dead1820 disanimated1833 ghosted1834 under the daisies1842 irresuscitable1843 under the sod1847 toes up1851 dead and buried1863 devitalized1866 translated1869 dead and done (for, with)1886 daid1890 bung1893 (as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904 six feet under1942 brown bread1969 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 161 Fey withouten fait is febelore þen nouȝt, And ded as a dore-nayl. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 628 For but ich haue bote of mi bale..I am ded as dore-nail. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. ix. 39 And I do not leaue thee..as dead as a doore nayle. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. iii. 11 Begar de Hearing be not so dead as I shall make him.] 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 213 Hudibras, to all appearing, Believ'd him to be dead as Herring. 1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius v. 57 As dead as a Herring, Stock-fish, or Door-nail. 1792 I. Bickerstaff Spoil'd Child ii. ii. 32 Thus let me seize my tender bit of lamb—there I think I had her as dead as mutton. 1832 T. Creevey in Creevey Papers (1903) II. 245 Dead as mutton, every man John of us! 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late III. viii. 65 Ugh! what, is he, is he—Dead as a herring. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 May 5/2 The Congo treaty may now be regarded as being as dead as a doornail. 1904 H. O. Sturgis Belchamber iv. 51 The Radicalism of Mill..is as dead as the dodo. 1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence ii. 10 Mr. Crabbe was as dead as mutton, but Mr. Crabbe continued to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. 1935 Ann. Reg. 1934 ii. 305 References appearing in the London newspapers to the effect that ‘war debts are as dead as the Dodo’ were cabled to the American press. 1960 Guardian 24 Mar. 11/1 Mr. Menzies..refused a request for a boycott..saying he had hoped this ‘was as dead as a dodo’. (as) dead as the (or a) dodo An extinct bird, Didus ineptus, belonging to the family Columbidæ, formerly inhabiting the island of Mauritius; it had a massive clumsy body, and small wings of no use for flight; transferred and figurative, an old-fashioned, stupid, inactive, or unenlightened person. (as) dead as the (or a) dodo: see dead adj. 32b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Raphidae (dodo) dodo1628 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > age-related dodo1886 fuddy-duddy1904 fuddydud1914 1628 E. Altham Let. to Sir E. Altham 18 June in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1874) 448 A strange fowle: which I had at the Iland mauritius called by ye portingalls a DoDo. 1628 E. Altham Let. to Sir E. Altham 18 June in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1874) 448 [P.S.] Of mr perce you shall receue a iarr of ginger..and a bird called a DoDo, if it live. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 211 Mauritius..here and here only and in Dygarroys, is generated the Dodo, [1638 347 a Portuguize name it is, and has reference to her simplenes] which for shape and rarenesse may Antigonize the Phœnix of Arabia. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 21 Like the Dodoes wings, more to looke at, then for execution. c1650 H. L'Estrange in Sloane MS. 1839. 5, lf. 54 About 1638, as I walked London streets, I [saw] the picture of a strange fowle hong out upon a cloth..went in to see it. It..was a great fowle, somwhat bigger then the largest Turkey Cock.. The keeper called it a Dodo. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 289/1 A Dodo, or Dronte..doth equal a Swan in bigness. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 78 Three or four dodos are enough to dine an hundred men. 1831 H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. ii. 154 The Dodo seems to afford us an example of the extinction of an animal in comparatively recent times. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Feb. 1/1 The old dodo at Scotland Yard, roused into a state of feverish activity..yesterday converted itself by a tremendous effort into a gigantic turkey-cock. 1896 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 62 157/2 If he has not indeed gone the way of the dodo and the dinotherium. 1922 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 18 June (1964) 164 Tom Boyd wrote me that Bridges had been a dodo about some Y.M.C.A. man. 1950 A. Wilson (title) Such darling dodos. < as lemmas |
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