| 单词 | birds of a feather flock together |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbirds of a feather flock together c. birds of a feather and variants: people of the same sort or who have shared sensibilities, tastes, values, etc. Frequently in proverbial phrase birds of a feather flock together. Cf. feather n. 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > in respect of kind [phrase] > of the same kind birds of a feather1545 birds of a feather flock together1581 of the same, that, every, etc. feather1581 1545 W. Turner Rescuynge of Romishe Fox sig. B viii Byrdes of on kynde and color flok and flye allwayes together. 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 90v A prying eye, a listning eare, and a prating tongue are all birds of one wing. 1632 D. Lupton London & Countrey Carbonadoed 57 The Tayler and Broker are Birds of a feather. 1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 13 note Birds of a Feather flock together. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 167 I trow thou be'st a bird of the same feather. 1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. (1998) ii. ii. 176 Wiggy and my father were real cronies, birds of a feather in every way. 2006 N.Y. Times Mag. 10 Dec. 52 Web sites like Facebook and MySpace, which tend to bring birds of a feather together. birds of a feather flock together c. Description of plumage; species (of bird). Often transferred in phrases of the same, that, every, etc. feather: = of the same, etc. kind or character. Proverb, birds of a feather flock together. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adjective] ylikeeOE likeOE anlikeOE accordanta1325 of a (also one) mouldc1330 kindred1340 lichy1370 likelyc1384 alikea1393 ontinkela1400 evenly?c1400 similable?a1440 semble1449 of a sort1463 seemable1501 uniform1548 resembled1553 self-like1556 like-natured1566 resembling1573 kindlike1579 of the same, that, every, etc. feather1581 resemblant1581 marrow1585 similar1586 like-seeming1590 twin-like1599 connatural1601 similary1610 semblativea1616 otherlike1620 like-shaped1640 connate1641 homogeneous1641 consimilar1645 congenerous1646 resemblancing1652 congeniousa1656 congenerate1657 equaliform1660 congenial1669 similitive1678 symbolizant1685 synonymous1690 of akin1723 consimilary1736 like-sized1742 cogeneric1777 alike as a row of pins1785 congenerica1834 Siamese1833 congener1867 lak1881 sorty1885 homoeomorphic1902 homogenized1958 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > in respect of kind [phrase] > of the same kind birds of a feather1545 birds of a feather flock together1581 of the same, that, every, etc. feather1581 the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > species described by feather1581 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 300 A Byrd of the same feather. 1599 R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. 83 Birdes of a feather will flocke togither. 1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. F4v A whole brood of signets, and all of a feather. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Alaine A bird of his owne feather. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 102 I am not of that Feather, to shake off My Friend when he must neede me. View more context for this quotation 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 60 Fowls of a feather flock together. 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico v. 121 Many of the Covenanters were birds of the same feather. 1665 J. Spencer Disc. Vulgar Prophecies 70 He knows good men are soonest decoyed by those which seem of a feather with themselves. 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! II. 48 Four hundred and fifty of them..will be of the misjudging feather. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. v. 213 Birds of social feather helping each His fellow's flight. 1829 T. Carlyle German Playwrights in Foreign Rev. Jan. 98 Literary quacks of every feather. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 4 Ferns of all feather. < as lemmas |
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