| 单词 | out of one's shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of one's shell c. In figurative phrases referring to emergence into life; esp. in out of one's shell (with a negative). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [adverb] out of one's shell1551 maturely1630 adultly?1742 society > society and the community > social relations > [noun] > participation in out of one's shell1551 meshing1967 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Ovijv In this worlde a child shal scant be out of his shel, but he shalbe suer to one or other. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 41v My young nouice..not yet crept out of the shell. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 62v If at the first peeping out of the shell, a young Student sets not a graue face on it. 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered viii. 27 Those the..Archbishop..vnfolded..at Cambridge, before thou wert crept out of thy Alphabeticall shell. 1670 R. Baxter Cure Church-div. 4 The pride of those that run with the shell on their head into the Ministry. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) You're scarcely out of the shell yet; a phrase applied to young persons, to those especially who affect something beyond their years. 1837 R. Browning Strafford ii. i. 34 Puritan. His fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. Fiennes. Shall be? It chips the shell, man; peeps abroad. < as lemmas |
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