| 单词 | son of toil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasson of toil h. son of toil (frequently in horny-handed son of toil): a labourer; spec. a manual labourer. Now often in humorous or ironic contexts. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > labourer or unskilled labourera1393 laboura1425 pioneer1543 hand1551 heaver1587 yard boy1776 son of toil1779 spalpeen1780 hacker1784 khalasi1785 tiger1865 cafone1872 mucker1899 mazdoor1937 bracero1946 manamba1959 nkuba kyeyo1991 1779 Pictures of Men, Manners & Times II. xxiv. 92 The rough son of Toil, untutored but in the ways of commerce, unlearned in, and ridiculing, the foppery of the fashionable world. 1873 Q. Rev. Oct. 286/2 The peculiar virtues of the horny-handed sons of toil received a severe shock in 1848, and finally collapsed in 1871. 1902 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 441 A crowd of ten thousand..proud, untamed democrats, horny-handed sons of toil..and fliers of the eagle. 1933 P. G. Wodehouse Heavy Weather xvii. 298 You look like one of those Sons of Toil Buried by Tons of Soil I once saw in a head-line. 1976 Times 23 Mar. 19/4 There won't be any room for your actual horny-handed sons of toil in the TUC; there'll be too many sharp-suited managers. 2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers v. 213 As it happens I am not a horny-handed son of toil, nor do I tip my cap at betters. < as lemmas |
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