| 单词 | small-beer chronicle |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall-beer chronicle small-beer chronicle n. [with allusion to quot. a1616 at sense 2a] a narrative of trivial, usually domestic, events. ΚΠ 1801 W. Atkinson Let. in Answer to one written by Stranger 27 To try your prowess amongst the lowest of the low, in six-penny pamphlets, and small beer chronicles? 1852 New Monthly Mag. May 18 Jane Austen..effectually interests you in the ‘small-beer chronicles’ of every-day household life. 1878 T. Archer Pictures & Royal Portraits II. 142 The evil influences that had..made history itself a mere small-beer chronicle of vile intrigues and petty wranglings among partizans and favourites. 1922 Poet Lore Summer 294 The small beer chronicles of the great always have a specific value—one collects one's almanac of anecdotes from Adam to Zarathustra! 1989 J. Sutherland Stanford Compan. Victorian Fiction 111 In content, The Caxtons is a small beer chronicle. < as lemmas |
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