| 单词 | a pad in the straw |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pad in the straw 2. a pad in the straw and variants: a lurking or hidden danger.Cf. a snake in the grass at snake n. 2b.The short story whose title is given as quot. 1952 makes no other use of the phrase, except for a reference to its occurrence in an old document. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > instance or cause of > hidden pitfallc1390 wevet1499 a pad in the straw1530 shelf1560 trapfall1596 snake1611 trapdoor1648 mantrap1798 death-trap1828 nigger in the woodpile1852 —— in the woodpile1857 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 595/1 Though they make never so fayre a face, yet there is a padde in the strawe. 1575 W. Drury in T. Churchyard Chippes f. 44v Syr William Drury, (smellyng out a pad in the straw). 1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo f. 3 I haue..poynted to the strawe where the Padd lurkes, that euery man at a glimse, might discry the beaste. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 425 Latet anguis in herba, there is a pad in the straw, and invisible mischief lurking therein. 1672 W. Goffe in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1868) 4th Ser. VIII. 136 There is a pad in the straw which God will in due time descover. 1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 150 Oh I see the pad, you never heard nor saw the like.] 1952 C. Woodforde (title) A pad in the straw. < as lemmas |
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