| 单词 | leather and prunella |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleather and prunella d. leather and prunella: an expression for something to which one is utterly indifferent.[This is, strictly speaking, a misinterpretation of Pope's words; the context refers to the difference of rank between the ‘cobbler’ and the ‘parson’, prunella being mentioned as the material for the clerical gown.] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant thing of noughtc1425 nothing such1579 of nothing1583 nullitya1591 O1608 ciphera1616 zero1650 flinga1661 leather and prunella1734 small change1822 minus quantity1843 nuthin'1843 nothingburger1953 1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 194 Worth makes the Man, and want of it the Fellow; The rest, is all but Leather or Prunella. 1811 Ld. Byron Epit. J. Blackett Then who shall say so good a fellow Was only ‘leather and prunella?’ 1831 Society 1 32 A preux chevalier, to whom all others were leather and prunella. 1879 A. Trollope Thackeray 192 The man to whom these delights of American humour are leather and prunello. < as lemmas |
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