| 单词 | one's cake is dough |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone's cake is dough one's cake is dough: one's aim, hope, or expectation has failed or been thwarted; one is in a hopeless situation, ruined, or done for (rare and archaic in later use). Also Scottish. †one's meal is dough (obsolete). ΚΠ 1564 T. Becon Displayeng Popishe Masse f. xlviiiv, in Wks. iii Make much..of praying for the dead..or ells your Cake is dough & al your fatte lye in the fyre. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. i. 130 My cake is dough, but Ile in among the rest, Out of hope of all, but my share of the feast. View more context for this quotation 1687 E. Settle Refl. Dryden's Plays 4 She is sorry his cake is dough, and that he came not soon enough to speed. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 191 I thought all my Meal dough. I thought all my Pains ill bestowed. Spoken when we are disappointed of our Expectation. 1754 Miss Smythies Hist. Lucy Wellers II. iii. iv. 35 I guess by what she said, she has got another sweet-heart: so my cake's dough. 1836 N.Y. Spectator 18 Jan. Mr. Van Buren has sagacity enough to know, if the country is involved in a war, that his cake is dough. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. xxi. 227 Dierich's forty years weighed him down like forty bullets. ‘Our cake is dough,’ he gasped. 1934 J. Farnol Winds of Fortune v. 31 Thy cake's dough, eh, Japhet; art cheated o' thy dear vengeance, lad! < as lemmas |
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