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单词 small deer
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small deer
3. small deer: a phrase originally, and perhaps still by Shakespeare, used in sense 1; but now humorously associated with sense 2.
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14.. Sir Beues (1885) p. 74/2 (MS.C.) Ratons & myse and soche smale dere, That was hys mete that vii yere.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 126 But mise and rats, and such small Deere [1623 Deare], Hath beene Toms foode for seuen long yeare. View more context for this quotation
1883 G. Allen Colin Clout's Cal. 14 Live mainly upon worms, slugs, and other hardy small deer.
in extended use.a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) II. x. 17 The small deer that were herded together by Johnson as the most eminent of English poets.
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