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单词 like chaff before the wind
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like chaff before the wind
P3. like chaff before the wind and variants.With allusion to Psalm 35:5, etc.
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1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 106 As quheill vnstabill and caffe befoir the wind.
1607 H. Ainsworth Communion of Saincts xv. 311 As heavenly warriours that excel in strength, they fight against our enemies, pursuing and scattering them, as chaff before the wind.
1649 Triall Lieut. Col. J. Lilburne 132 The Testimonies all being invalled at least in the eye of the Law; and therefore that's gone too, and blown away as chaff before the wind.
1798 W. Dunlap Cow Chace iii. in Andre 82 Sublime upon the stirrups rose The mighty Lee behind, And drove the terror-smitten cows, Like chaff before the wind.
1825 Gospel Advocate 14 Jan. 4/2 You are apprehensive that your unanswerable arguments will be like chaff before the wind.
1949 Indian Listener 24 July 3/2 Our sympathy is as chaff before the wind unless by it we create a new attitude of mind.
2018 Rouse Hill Times (New S. Wales, Austral.) (Nexis) 16 July 71 Club captain Tom Solomon led the charge into the teeth of the visitors' defence, scattering would-be tacklers like chaff before the wind.
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