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单词 midas-eared
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Midas-eared
a. An incapacity to appreciate something (usually in plural); also in Midas-eared adj.
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1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 439 Ye must vnderstand that Princes haue sometyme Argus eyes, and Midas eares.
?1570 T. Howell Newe Sonets sig. Fiii v When she in deede, her selfe will feede, and take her priuate gaine, and make the weare kyng, Midas eare, as though she tooke the paine.
1648 Mercurius Anti-mercurius sig. A1 Mercurius Anti-Mercurius, Communicating all Humours, Conditions, Forgeries and Lyes of Mydas-eard Newsmongers.
1733 B. Booth Mem. 47 A double Infamy's thy Due, And Midas' Ears shall grace thy Head.
1832 C. Webbe Lyric Leaves 122 Sounds which near Might seem discordant to some Midas' ear, But, in the distance mingling, make sweet harmony.
1850 H. F. James Abolitionism Unveiled 3/2 Bankers, stock-jobbing and midas-eared Mammonites, self-styled Abolitionists.
1901 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 474 He is cordially hated by bankers, promoters, speculators and most men of the Midas-eared class.
1966 Shakespeare Q. 17 121 The satyr-piper is blind as is his friend with the long Midas-ears (Folly) who helps lead blind and blindfolded humanity to virtue's perishing.
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