英语词汇“a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. A glance or significant movement of the eye (often accompanied by a nod) expressing command, assent, invitation, or the like. Obsolete except in the proverb a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse (see also nod n.¹ 1), and phr. to tip, give, or get the wink (now apprehended as sense 5).

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > significant look

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society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > other gestures > [noun] > significant glance

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1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxxviii. f. 94 Of a mayster sturdy and fierce, a lyttell wynke to his seruant is a fearefull commaundement.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Sj ^v I am not so blind, that thou canst make me beleue with a winke, it is midnight at noone day.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 11 Her wincks, and nods, and gestures yeeld them,..would make one thinke there might be thought.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 146 Thou (eternall Father) at whose winke The wrathfull Oceans swelling pride doth sinke.

1622 Ballad against Evil Women (Reidpeth) in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) 267 Ȝitt women sould..Thair vertewis all mak of na availlis, Be subtill winkis [1568 Bann. wrinkis, a1586 Maitl. wrynkis], and thair desaitfull talis.

a1631 J. Donne Sunne Rising in Poems 13 Thy beames, so reverend and strong Why shouldst thou thinke? I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke.

1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 11 I only tip him the wink, he knows an Alehouse from a Hovil.

1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 100 A nod and a wink are very often treacherous and false.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 142 At last..he gave him the wink, and whispered him.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 217 Harry, upon a wink, stepped out.

a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) III. x. 262 The surgeon, who had previously got the wink, confined him to his bed.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. v. 115 Don Felix thinks a wink as good as a nod.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 85 A wink's as gude as a nod to a blind horse.

1832 H. Martineau For Each & All v. 69 On this, the wink went round, and the neighbours dropped off.

1872 C. Gibbon For King xvii He gave me the wink that the lady was a friend of his.

单词	a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse
释义	> as lemmas a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse a. A glance or significant movement of the eye (often accompanied by a nod) expressing command, assent, invitation, or the like. Obsolete except in the proverb a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse (see also nod n.¹ 1), and phr. to tip, give, or get the wink (now apprehended as sense 5). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > significant look wink1541 society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > other gestures > [noun] > significant glance wink1541 cock1819 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxxviii. f. 94 Of a mayster sturdy and fierce, a lyttell wynke to his seruant is a fearefull commaundement. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Sj ^v I am not so blind, that thou canst make me beleue with a winke, it is midnight at noone day. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 11 Her wincks, and nods, and gestures yeeld them,..would make one thinke there might be thought. View more context for this quotation 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 146 Thou (eternall Father) at whose winke The wrathfull Oceans swelling pride doth sinke. 1622 Ballad against Evil Women (Reidpeth) in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) 267 Ȝitt women sould..Thair vertewis all mak of na availlis, Be subtill winkis [1568 Bann. wrinkis, a1586 Maitl. wrynkis], and thair desaitfull talis. a1631 J. Donne Sunne Rising in Poems 13 Thy beames, so reverend and strong Why shouldst thou thinke? I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke. 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 11 I only tip him the wink, he knows an Alehouse from a Hovil. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 100 A nod and a wink are very often treacherous and false. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 142 At last..he gave him the wink, and whispered him. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 217 Harry, upon a wink, stepped out. a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) III. x. 262 The surgeon, who had previously got the wink, confined him to his bed. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. v. 115 Don Felix thinks a wink as good as a nod. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 85 A wink's as gude as a nod to a blind horse. 1832 H. Martineau For Each & All v. 69 On this, the wink went round, and the neighbours dropped off. 1872 C. Gibbon For King xvii He gave me the wink that the lady was a friend of his. extracted from winkn.¹ < as lemmas
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