英语词汇“springes to catch woodcocks”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. In various allusive phrases in collocation with woodcock, with reference to a trap set for a person, esp. one who is foolish or easily deceived (cf. woodcock n. 2). Frequently in springes to catch (also for) woodcocks. Cf. spring n.³Later chiefly with allusion to Shakespeare's use in quot. 1603.

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1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 89 Cupide sets vpp a Springe for Woodcockes, which are entangled ere they discrie the line.

1592 Speeches delivered to Her Maiestie sig. A.iii Pan. Oft I haue hearde, that two Pigeons may bee caught with one beane. Isab. And two Woodcocks with one sprindge.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 115 Springes [1604 springs] to catch woodcocks.

1613 H. Parrot (title) Laquei Ridiculosi, or Springes for Woodcocks.

1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love ii. 30 So, there's one Woodcock more in the Springe.

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iii. 28 Tho' Mayors and Woodcocks come in about Michaelmas, they don't lay Springes for Sheriffs till about Midsummer.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I ii, in Wks. (1870) II. 379 An idiot in lawn sleeves and a rochet setting springes to catch woodcocks.

1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold ii. ii. 37 We hold our Saxon woodcock in the springe, But he begins to flutter.

1940 Poetry 57 147 No one, obviously, can set springes for woodcock that can't fly.

1998 Harvard Law Rev. 111 1797 He gives me too much credit in supposing that I made bad arguments deliberately, setting springes to catch woodcocks.

单词	springes to catch woodcocks
释义	> as lemmas springes to catch (also for) woodcocks a. In various allusive phrases in collocation with woodcock, with reference to a trap set for a person, esp. one who is foolish or easily deceived (cf. woodcock n. 2). Frequently in springes to catch (also for) woodcocks. Cf. spring n.³Later chiefly with allusion to Shakespeare's use in quot. 1603. ΚΠ 1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 89 Cupide sets vpp a Springe for Woodcockes, which are entangled ere they discrie the line. 1592 Speeches delivered to Her Maiestie sig. A.iii Pan. Oft I haue hearde, that two Pigeons may bee caught with one beane. Isab. And two Woodcocks with one sprindge. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 115 Springes [1604 springs] to catch woodcocks. 1613 H. Parrot (title) Laquei Ridiculosi, or Springes for Woodcocks. 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love ii. 30 So, there's one Woodcock more in the Springe. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iii. 28 Tho' Mayors and Woodcocks come in about Michaelmas, they don't lay Springes for Sheriffs till about Midsummer. a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I ii, in Wks. (1870) II. 379 An idiot in lawn sleeves and a rochet setting springes to catch woodcocks. 1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold ii. ii. 37 We hold our Saxon woodcock in the springe, But he begins to flutter. 1940 Poetry 57 147 No one, obviously, can set springes for woodcock that can't fly. 1998 Harvard Law Rev. 111 1797 He gives me too much credit in supposing that I made bad arguments deliberately, setting springes to catch woodcocks. extracted from springen. < as lemmas
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