| 单词 | the black ox |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe black ox 3. figurative. the black ox: adversity, hardship, misfortune; the cares of life. Chiefly in the black ox has trod on his (also her, etc.) foot and variants. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > in adversity [phrase] > adversity has afflicted one the black ox has trod on his (also her, etc.) foot1546 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun] eld971 old agec1330 agec1380 last agea1382 oldc1385 aldereldea1400 winterc1425 vilessec1430 annosityc1450 senectute1481 the black ox1546 golden years1559 years1561 great1587 afterlife1589 setting sun1597 antiquity1600 chair-daysa1616 the vale of yearsa1616 grandevity1623 green old age1634 eldship1647 senioritya1688 the other side of the hill1691 the decline of life1711 senectude1756 senility1791 senectitude1796 post-climacteric1826 Anno Domini1885 senium1911 golden age1946 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. vii. sig. B4 It was yet but hony moone. The blacke oxe had not trode on his nor her foote. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvi. 139 Till the blacke oxe tread vpon his toes, and neede make him trie what mettle he is made of. 1591 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao iv. ii She was a pretie wench,..now crowes foote is on her eye, & the black oxe hath troad on her foote. a1635 E. Fairfax Dæmonologia (1882) iv. 170 The black ox treads not yet upon thy toe, Nor thy good fortune turns her wheele away. a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub iv. vi, in Wks. (1640) III The black Oxe never trod yet O your foot. View more context for this quotation 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xliii. 301 The common phrases of wild oats, and black oxen, and such-like, were qualifiers. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xi. 227 The black ox has tramped on ye since I was aneath your roof-tree. 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. iv. 171 The ‘black ox’ trod on the fairy foot of my light-hearted cousin Fan. 1919 H. Trench Napoleon iii. i. 67 Ah, has the black ox trodden on your foot? 1985 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 20 Mar. 21 Go any deeper into Stevie Smith, and you may wish you hadn't. She was one on whom the black ox hath trod. < as lemmas |
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