| 单词 | keep the wolf from the door |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep the wolf from the door a. As a type of a destructive or ‘devouring’ agency, esp. hunger or famine; often in such phrases as to keep the wolf from the door (now always = to ward off hunger or starvation). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devouring (of fire, etc.) > that which devours (of fire, insects, etc.) devouress1382 devourerc1385 wolfc1470 sarcophagus1619 consumingness1659 corroder1697 c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. xcviii. xii. (1812) 181 Endowe hym now, with noble sapience By whiche he maye the wolf werre [v.r. bete] frome the gate. 1555 H. Braham Inst. Gentleman sig. Gij This manne can litle skyl..to saue himself harmlesse from the perilous accidentes of this world, keping ye wulf from the doore (as they cal it). 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. lx. 90 That he or she should have wherwith to support both,..at least to keep the Woolf from the door, otherwise 'twere a meer madnes to marry. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) i. ii. 31 That hungry Wolf, want and necessity, which now stands at his door. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 75/1 Poets call the Earth..the Woolf of the Gods, because it devours and consumes every thing. a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) II. v. 176 Business began to flag, and the most I could do was to keep the Wolf from the Door. 1858 [see sense 10a]. 1891 H. Herman His Angel 73 It makes a lot of difference to..one's happiness if the wolf is not scratching at the door. to keep the wolf from the door b. to keep the wolf from the door: see 6. < as lemmas |
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