| 单词 | make a toil of pleasure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmake a toil of pleasure make a toil of pleasure: unnecessarily to make a burden of something normally considered pleasurable. ΚΠ 1603 N. Breton Dialogue Pithe & Pleasure sig. B3 I doo not loue so to make a toyle of a pleasure. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iii. 38 If you only hint what you feel in a kind of dumb show, it is insipid: if you have to explain it, it is making a toil of a pleasure. 1906 Daily Chron. 23 Aug. 3/1 This was to make, wrong~headedly, a toil of pleasure. 2003 M. Schipper Never Marry Woman with Big Feet 122 ‘Never make a toil of pleasure’, as the man said when he dug his wife's grave only three feet deep. < as lemmas |
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