| 单词 | the gentleman in velvet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe (little) gentleman in (black or brown) velvet P9. British. humorous. the (little) gentleman in (black or brown) velvet: a mole. rare.Apparently a Jacobite phrase, referring to the belief that the death of William III was caused by his horse's stumbling over a molehill. ΚΠ 1758 T. Smollett Hist. Eng. (ed. 3) VI. 326 They drank to the health of Sorrel, meaning the horse that fell with the king, and, under the appellation of the little gentleman in velvet, toasted the mole that raised the hill over which the horse had stumbled. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xi. 152 The little gentleman in black velvet who did such service in 1702. View more context for this quotation 1971 Times 16 Dec. 8/8 If you pick up the little gentleman in black velvet, he is liable to bite you, sharply. 2011 Financial Times 19 Nov. 10 How can we control the ‘gentlemen in brown velvet’ now that strychnine is technically banned? < as lemmas |
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