| 单词 | the frozen limit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe frozen limit b. figurative and of immaterial things. Of facts, truth (U.S.) = hard adj., solid adj. the frozen limit (colloquial): the hard and fast limit; the ne plus ultra of what is objectionable or unendurable; see limit n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > limit > a farthest limit ultimo1622 solsticea1631 ultimuma1657 frontier1672–3 upshot1699 ultimatum1748 verge1796 edge1911 the frozen limit1916 1576 A. Fleming tr. G. Macropedius in Panoplie Epist. 367 Is that olde acquaintance..frozen..in you? 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 23 But farre worse then any frozen captivity is the bondage of Prelates. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 38 Verse fires the frozen Veins. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 146 They hoped to see..christian charity, then frozen, wax warm. 1814 Ld. Byron Corsair i. xv. 25 The tender blue of that large loving eye Grew frozen with its gaze on vacancy. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 62 This frozen sisterhood of the allegoric family. 1867 M. Arnold Sonn. West London The rich she had let pass with frozen stare. 1884 Boston (Mass.) Herald 25 Sept. ‘Frozen Facts’ is a purely American expression. 1884 Boston (Mass.) Herald 22 Oct. 2/2 We were simply stating the frozen truth. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin v. 79 Oh, to hell with you and your rotten excuses!.. You're about the frozen limit! 1917 W. H. L. Watson Adv. Despatch Rider x. 216 I don't mind their machine-guns, but their Minnenwerfer are the frozen limit! 1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog Drummond i. §1 Only his eyes redeemed his face from being what is known in the vernacular as the Frozen Limit. < as lemmas |
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