| 单词 | the lion's skin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe lion's skin e. the lion's skin occurs chiefly with reference to the fable of the ass that clothed himself in the skin of a lion. (See also quots.) ΚΠ 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 219 The fourthe fable is of the asse, and of the skynne of the Lyon.] 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. iii. 94 The man that once did sell the Lions skin, While the beast liued, was kild with hunting him. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Lion Il n'y eut iamais bon marché de peaux de lions,..a Lyons skinne was neuer bought good cheape. 1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence v. i. sig. I2 Reason assur'd me It was not safe to shave a Lyons skinne. 1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 847 When the Lyon's Skin alone would not serve turn, he knew how to make it out with that of the Fox. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 13. ¶4 The ill-natured World might call him, The Ass in the Lion's Skin. < as lemmas |
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