| 单词 | salt of youth |
| 释义 | > as lemmassalt of youth b. That which gives liveliness, freshness, or piquancy to a person's character, life, etc. Often in salt of youth, from Shakespeare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun] > that which or one who refreshes or invigorates spice?c1225 comfort1377 refresherc1450 refreshment1532 reviver1542 sauce1561 salt1579 refocillation1608 whettera1625 fillip1699 stimulant1728 stimulation1733 yeast1769 stimulus1791 inspiriter1821 stimulatory1821 refreshener1824 boost1825 bracer1826 young blood1830 freshener1838 invigoratorc1842 blow1849 tonic1849 elevation1850 stimulator1851 breather1876 pick-me-up1876 a shot in the arm1922 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 688/1 They are such that haue neither salt nor sause in them. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. iii. 44 Wee haue some salt of our youth in vs. View more context for this quotation 1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 42 The Things of Religion,..that Divine Salt, that will give a wholesom and relishing Savour to our Conversation. a1718 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. (1726) I. 732 A Man insipid, of no Sense or Salt. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. ii. 24 His character has the salt of honesty about it. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. iii. 54 He was a man not yet forty years of age, with still much of the salt of youth about him. 1879 M. Arnold Democracy in Mixed Ess. 19 A people without the salt of these qualities would arrive at the pettiness of China. < as lemmas |
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