| 单词 | one's dunghill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone's (own) dunghill b. Hence elliptically one's (own) dunghill: one's home ground or territory (literal and figurative). ΚΠ 1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ Legendarie sig. D.ij Such lickorous griediguttes of the Popes cauldron, who vpon their owne dunghil do so lightly accompt of Christian Kings and Princes. 1682 R. Kingston Cause & Cure Offences 39 Abroad in the Church or State, they will tell you nothing is right; but on their own dunghills, in their own Parishes, or Constableries, omnia bene, all is as it should be. a1704 T. Brown Table-talk in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 34 Nothing is so Imperious as a Fellow of a College upon his own Dunghil. 1765 H. Walpole Let. 9 Mar. (1937) I. 91 But goodnight; you see how one gossips, when one is alone and at quiet on one's own dunghill! 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xv. 233 What he [sc. Cicero] could not say in the Forum he thought he might venture on with impunity in the Senate, which might be called his own dunghill. 1912 H. Lea Day of Saxon i. 2 When men abandon with reluctance their own dunghills for the glories of their God.., how fragile are their racial bonds! 2005 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 19 May 38 There's no disgrace in losing to Dudley at Dudley they're always hard to beat on their own dunghill. < as lemmas |
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