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单词 tailor's hell
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tailor's hell
a. More fully tailor's hell. A place in a tailor's shop into which shreds or offcuts of material are thrown. Chiefly figurative in later use. Obsolete.
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1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde sig. F4 Remember the shreddes that fall into the Tailors hell, neuer come backe to couer your backe.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. Dv He can cast large shreds of such rich stuffe into hell vnder his shoppe boord.
1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. B1v Like a Taylers hell, it eates vp part of euery mans due.
1696 New Ballad upon Land-bank (single sheet) Whatever Taylors throw in Hell, Serves to make, or mend, or sell.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub iii. 87 The Taylor's Hell is the Type of a Critick's Common-place-Book.
1765 Elegy on Death of Guardian Outwitted 17 No farther..draw his Breeches from their darksome Cell; There, like their Master, let them find Repose, not dread the Horrors of a Taylor's Hell.
1805 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1806) 9 245 (note) Hell, a place so termed by the knights of the needle, wherein they stow their cabbage.
1815 W. Drennan Fugitive Pieces 82 Thou literary Harlequin!..With patch'd and party-colour'd dress, Made up of shreds of languages; A tailor's hell of common-places.
1847 Amer. Whig Rev. Jan. 73/2 Mr. Yorick's motives..were of so complicated and subtle a mixture,..collected out of such a sink and tailor's hell of experiences.
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