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单词 snakes in iceland
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snakes in Iceland
e. snakes in Iceland: used allusively (see quot. 1758) of something posited only to be dismissed as non-existent.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > that which is non-existent > something posited or dismissed as non-existent
snakes in Iceland1791
1758 tr. N. Horrebow Nat. Hist. Iceland lxxii. 91 No snakes of any kind are to be met with throughout the whole island.]
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 220 Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of ‘The Natural History of Iceland’, from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus:‘Chap. lxxii. Concerning snakes. There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island’.
1906 Spectator 5 May 716/1 ‘The Value of a Public School Education’ reminds one of the chapter on the snakes in Iceland... ‘So far as the school at large is concerned every Greek and Latin book should be destroyed.’
1978 C. Sykes in R. Buckle U & Non-U Revisited 60 And what about hats? Of them it may be said as was said of snakes in The Natural History of Iceland.
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