| 单词 | loaf and water | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasloaf and water  (a)    bread and water: as the type of an extremely plain or frugal diet, as of a prisoner, penitent, or ascetic. Similarly (in early use)  †loaf and water, also  †bran and water.				 [Compare classical Latin pānis et aqua; later also Anglo-Norman pain e ewe (1376 or earlier; compare Middle French, French au pain et à l'eau), and Middle Dutch water ende broot (Dutch water en brood), Middle High German wazzer und brōt (German Wasser und Brot).]			 ΚΠ OE    tr.  Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum 		(Corpus Cambr. 191)	 l. 273  				Gif he þonne gyt wiðligð þissum forbeode ma him ælce bilyfne butan hlafe and wætere, oð he hit fullice gebete. lOE    St. Margaret 		(Corpus Cambr.)	 		(1994)	 160  				Þa com hire fosterfæder gan to hire and þurh an eahþyrl he hire to spræc and he hire brohte bread and wæter [OE Tiber. hi wæs fædende mid hlafe and mid wætre]. a1425    Dialogue Reason & Adversity 		(Cambr.)	 		(1968)	 37 (MED)  				Summe þat myghte haue had alle maner deyntees hadde delit to be fed a mong with bred & water. ?c1450    tr.  Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry 		(1906)	 12  				[She] fasted iij tymes a woke, two tymes in brede and water. 1474    in  Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. 		(1790)	 *32  				If any man come to late to mattyns..he shall sytt at the water boarde, and have nothinge unto his dynner but breade and water. 1537    tr.  Original & Sprynge all Sectes f. 5  				His meate was bread and water, his clothynge was a cote of males vpon his bare body. 1569    T. Knell Epit. Boner sig. B.j  				His soule was wearie here, in the life that he had, His foode was breade and water, his lodgying was to badde. 1598    W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost  i. i. 289  				You shall fast a weeke with Branne and  Water.       View more context for this quotation 1600    T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. E3  				Thou withholdest both the mault and flowre, And giu'st vs branne, and water, (fit for dogs.) 1697    T. D'Urfey Intrigues at Versailles  ii. ii. 15  				I had as live be in the Bastile, and order'd to feed upon Bread and Water, as be Confin'd to the sneaking allowance that a Parsimonious Husband shall bestow on me. 1749    T. Smollett tr.  A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I.  i. xii. 61  				To regale myself still with my bread and water, and a sight of the silent turnkey. 1781    Lett. Ital. Nun & Eng. Gentleman 44  				The most inexorable Tyrant does not refuse bread and water to the Criminal whom he has consigned to the Dungeon! 1822    S. Smith in  Edinb. Rev. Feb. 364  				Are visiting Justices to doom such a prisoner to bread and water? 1888    Times 21 June 10/3  				He was put upon bread and water. 1921    E. L. Masters Mitch Miller xiv. 113  				After that they..put him in a dark room and kept him on bread and water for a day. 1964    D. Wheatley They used Dark Forces vii. 98  				To bitch Hitler's last chance of winning the war I'd willingly spend a year down a coal mine on bread and water. 2003    Sunday Tasmanian 		(Nexis)	 14 Dec.  				We will all be reduced to bread and water to pay for our Yuletide largesse. < as lemmas | 
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