| 单词 | the schoolmaster is abroad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe schoolmaster is abroad the schoolmaster is abroad: education is widespread among the people. Now rare.Sometimes used humorously of a schoolmaster away from home (cf. abroad adv. 4a). ΚΠ 1828 Ld. Brougham in Times 30 Jan. 3/3 Let the soldier be abroad, in the present age he could do nothing. There was another person abroad... The schoolmaster was abroad..and he trusted more to him, armed with his primer, than he did to the soldier in full military array, for upholding and extending the liberties of his country. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) xv. 88 There was a chap said to me not long ago at Truro, Mr. Slick, this country is rapidly improving, ‘the schoolmaster is abroad now’. 1851 H. Crosby Lands of Moslem 18 When ‘the schoolmaster is abroad’, he should by all means visit Cairo. He would learn principles of teaching which he had never dreamed of in his philosophy. 1870 Notes & Queries 15 Oct. 328/2 Incredible as it may seem to the reader, now that the schoolmaster is abroad, I have heard the mayor of a very considerable town in the South of England make this mistake. 1912 Independent 4 Apr. 713/2 Government grows better, intelligence spreads, the voice of religion is heard, commercial interests assert themselves, and the schoolmaster is abroad. 1982 Country Life 28 Jan. 251/3 Popular education for the newly literate classes when the schoolmaster was abroad in our land. < as lemmas |
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