| 单词 | limbs of clay |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslimbs of clay c. feet of clay (cf. Dan. ii. 33 ‘his feet part of iron and part of clay’): a fundamental weakness in someone supposedly of great merit. Also occasionally limbs of clay. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > weakness of character or will unmighteOE frailnessa1300 infirmityc1384 debility1474 brittleness1493 brucklenessc1500 weak side1668 weakness1748 washiness1763 feebleness1809–10 enervation1849 weak-mindedness1854 feet of clay1859 will-lessness1865 bonelessness1869 molluscousness1870 limpness1873 backbonelessness1882 invertebracy1882 weak-kneedness1882 invertebrateness1884 spinelessness1920 gutlessness1936 1814 Ld. Byron Ode to Napoleon 8 Fronts of brass, and feet of clay. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. iii. ii. 371 But still the Earl's prosperity was hollow—the statue of brass stood on limbs of clay. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Idylls 137 They find some stain or blemish in a name of note..And judge all nature from her feet of clay. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. xi. 267 The woman..finds that her golden-headed god has got an iron body and feet of clay. 1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray xv. 269 It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) civ. 552 I had to avoid him [sc. Allenby]..lest he show feet of clay. 1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After iii. i. 199 Eric is sad because his idol has feet of clay. < as lemmas |
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