| 单词 | sisters under the skin |
| 释义 | > as lemmassisters under the skin P13. under the skin (also skins): in reality; according to the true rather the apparent nature of something. Originally in sisters under the skin.The phrase sisters under the skin derives from Kipling (see quot. 1896); Kipling's passage was widely quoted in the form ‘sisters under the skin’ in the early 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [adverb] > in reality in substancea1393 indeed1412 in realitya1513 in nature1605 solidly1625 under the skin (also skins)1896 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 193 For the Colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins! 1903 C. M. Gayley Representative Eng. Comedies I. 430 If he appears more ready than Alexander was to yield his victim, it is only because a keeper's daughter and a princess are ‘sisters under the skin’. 1925 Amer. Mercury Oct. 215/1 That diplomacy and force have always been brothers under the skins is a truism that most writers upon the former will not admit. 1946 A. Christie Hollow iii. 31 They were the same, sisters under the skin, Mrs. Pearstock from Tottenham and Mrs. Forrester of Park Lane. 1949 A. Wilson Wrong Set 57 Like called to like. The Colonel's lady and Lily O'Grady were both ‘lumpen’ under the skin. 1975 D. Francis High Stakes xi. 160 Merchant bankers are pirates under the skin. 1990 N.Y. Woman Oct. 74/1 My gayness doesn't assure me closeness to women—we're not, ipso facto, sisters under the skin. 1996 I. Q. Hunter in P. J. Davies Representing & Imagining Amer. xi. 118 Wired for killing, all men are psychopaths under the skin. < as lemmas |
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