单词 | the fat of the land |
释义 | > as lemmas(to eat, live on) the fat of the land c. The richest or most nourishing part of anything; the choicest produce (of the earth). Hence also: plenty, superabundance. Also U.S. Mining(see quot. 1883). Now rare except in phrase (to eat, live on) the fat of the land. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > be in easy circumstances (to eat, live on) the fat of the land1530 to be laughing1930 to have never had it so good1944 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > plenty or fertility > richest part fatnessc1000 fat1530 sumen1601 1530 Bible (Tyndale) xlv. f. 68v Ye shall eate the fatt of the londe. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 247 This Realme..wanted neither the fauour of the Sunne, nor the fat of the Soile. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlv. 18 Ye shall eat the fat of the land . View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxxii. 14 The fat of kidneis of wheat. 1624 P. Massinger Bond-man i. iii. sig. C2 In this plenty, And fat of peace. a1639 J. Dyke Right Receiving of Christ (1640) xiii. 188 The fat and moysture of the earth. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια Isagoge sig. F3 Sulphurs, which are the fat of the earth. 1832 L. Hunt Poems Pref. 9 We have the poetry..of the ‘fat of the land’ in Thomson. 1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. viii. 169 For thirteen years he has lived on the fat of the land. 1883 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxv. 584 Here and there..are sometimes found little accretions of pure silver which miners speak of as ‘the fat of the vein’. < as lemmas |
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