| 单词 | a sting in the tail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa sting in the tail a. In many figurative uses; e.g. an acute pain or sharp wound inflicted on the mind or heart; something which (or that element in anything which) inflicts acute pain; the ‘point’ of an epigram or sarcasm; something which goads to action or appetite, a sharp stimulus or incitement. Also in a sting in the tail and variants. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [noun] > that which causes emotion > one who or that which stirs the emotions waker1390 stingc1412 wakener1513 awaker1611 impressor1631 quickener1819 button pusher1990 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun] > instance of wit, witticism > point of sting?1611 c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 3909 Yf..fortunes stynge hym ouerthwerte. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xv. 56 The stynge of deeth is synne. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ii3 The renewed sting of iealosie. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 233 Be assur'd, my spirite needs no stings To this hote conflict. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 189 Freize, freize, thou bitter skie..thy sting is not so sharpe, as freind remembred not. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iv. 58 One, who neuer feeles The wanton stings, and motions of the sence. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. iv. 18 Ah what sharpe stings are in her mildest words! View more context for this quotation 1657 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 52 His letter to you I hope will be full of douceur with out a stinge at the tayle of it. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 106 Too soon they must not feel the stings of Love. View more context for this quotation 1713 J. Addison Cato i. i Portius, no more! your words leave stings behind 'em. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Marcellus in Plutarch Lives II. 399 This [result of an ambuscade] added stings to Marcellus's desire of an engagement. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. i. 65 The sting of taxation is wastefulness. c1820 W. Blake On Homer's Poetry in Compl. Writings (1972) 778 Those who will have Unity exclusively in Homer come out with a Moral like a sting in the tail. 1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 263 The innocent prattle of his children takes out the sting of a man's poverty. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great in Ess. 1851 II. 672 For that end it was necessary that Prussia should be all sting. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 129 They never worked till they felt the sting of hunger. 1926 Times 7 Sept. 17/5 The sting of this book is in its tail. 1952 A. Christie They do it with Mirrors 192 Don't say it. I'm suspicious of these village parallels. They've always got a sting in the tail. 1979 A. Williamson Funeral March for Siegfried xxxii. 165 He..added a sting in the tail. ‘Of course, if the murderer were one of you, an interloper would not be necessary.’ < as lemmas |
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