| 单词 | out of the straw |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of the straw b. in the straw: in childbed, lying-in. So out of the straw, recovered after childbearing.In quot. 1786 the phrase is taken to refer to the practice of laying down straw (to deaden noise) before a house where there is a confinement. It is doubtful whether this was the original meaning, though the practice was common. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] childbed1494 in the strawa1661 lying-in1711 sick1828 the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adverb] > recovered after birth out of the straw1772 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Linc. 149 Our English plain Proverb, De Puerperis, they are in the Straw; shows Feather-Beds to be of no ancient use amongst the Common sort of our Nation. 1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. iv. 18 We sipp'd our Fuddle, As Women in the Straw do Caudle. 1772 Grimston Papers (MS.) I hope your neighbour, Mrs. G., is safe out of the straw, and the child well. 1786 J. Burgoyne Heiress i. i. 12 You take care to send [sc. cards] to all the lying-in ladies? Prompt. At their doors, Madam, before the first load of straw... Prompt. (Reading his memorandum as he goes out). Ladies in the straw—Ministers, &c...never had a better list [etc.]. 1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater 119 In the phrase of ladies in the straw, ‘as well as can be expected’. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. xv. 218 They found the lady in the straw. < as lemmas |
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