英语词汇“the fat is in the fire”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. Phrases: †to lick the fat from the beard of: to forestall the results of (a person's) enterprise or industry. †the fat flits from (a man's) beard: he lets go the advantage he has gained. (all) the fat is in the fire: in early use expressing that a design has irremediably failed; now used when some injudicious act has been committed that is sure to provoke a violent explosion of anger. to chew the fat: see chew v. 3h.

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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > unsuccessful [phrase] > failure of an action or design

(all) the fat is in the fire1546

the bottom falls out of1637

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > unsuccessful [phrase] > loss of advantage gained

the fat flits from (a man's) beard1546

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall > the results of an enterprise

to lick the fat from the beard of1546

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > in a state of commotion or disorder [phrase]

on steerc1480

the devil to paya1500

in (an) uproar1548

the devil rides on a fiddle-stick1598

in motion1598

the devil (and all) to doa1681

(all) the fat is in the fire1797

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv Than farewell ryches, the fat is in the fyre.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv Blame me not to haste, for feare..the fat cleane flyt fro my berde.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clix^v Other..marchantes..sore abhorryng the Italian nacion, for lickyng the fat from their beardes, and taking from them their accustomed liuyng.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 123 But they that shooten neerest the pricke Sayne, other the fat from their beards doen lick.

1644 Ormonde Let. in Carte Life (1735) III. 281 I hear nothing of the armes, ammunition or provisions, without all which all the fat is in the fire.

1797 J. Wolcot Ode to Livery of London in Wks. (1812) III. 449 Should we once complain The fat will all be in the fire.

1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iv. 4 The fat in the fire will be a thing worth looking at.

单词	the fat is in the fire
释义	> as lemmas (all) the fat is in the fire c. Phrases: †to lick the fat from the beard of: to forestall the results of (a person's) enterprise or industry. †the fat flits from (a man's) beard: he lets go the advantage he has gained. (all) the fat is in the fire: in early use expressing that a design has irremediably failed; now used when some injudicious act has been committed that is sure to provoke a violent explosion of anger. to chew the fat: see chew v. 3h. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > unsuccessful [phrase] > failure of an action or design (all) the fat is in the fire1546 the bottom falls out of1637 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > unsuccessful [phrase] > loss of advantage gained the fat flits from (a man's) beard1546 the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall > the results of an enterprise to lick the fat from the beard of1546 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > in a state of commotion or disorder [phrase] on steerc1480 the devil to paya1500 in (an) uproar1548 the devil rides on a fiddle-stick1598 in motion1598 the devil (and all) to doa1681 (all) the fat is in the fire1797 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv Than farewell ryches, the fat is in the fyre. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv Blame me not to haste, for feare..the fat cleane flyt fro my berde. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clix^v Other..marchantes..sore abhorryng the Italian nacion, for lickyng the fat from their beardes, and taking from them their accustomed liuyng. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 123 But they that shooten neerest the pricke Sayne, other the fat from their beards doen lick. 1644 Ormonde Let. in Carte Life (1735) III. 281 I hear nothing of the armes, ammunition or provisions, without all which all the fat is in the fire. 1797 J. Wolcot Ode to Livery of London in Wks. (1812) III. 449 Should we once complain The fat will all be in the fire. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iv. 4 The fat in the fire will be a thing worth looking at. extracted from fatadj.n.² < as lemmas
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