| 单词 | borrowed days |
| 释义 | > as lemmasborrowed days 1. Taken on loan. borrowed days: in Cheshire, the first eleven days of May, so called because in Old Style they belonged to April; see borrowing n.1 c. borrowed time: an unexpected extension of time, esp. of a person's life. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > borrowed time borrowed timec1440 the mind > possession > taking > borrowing > [adjective] lent13.. borrowedc1440 lended1592 mutuated1598 mutuatitious1625 mutuatitial1654 the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [noun] > March > last three days of March borrowing daysc1550 borrowed days1646 c1440 York Myst. xxxi. 105 A borowed bene sette I noght be hym. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica So it is usual among us..to ascribe unto March certain borrowed days from April. View more context for this quotation 1688 Answer Talon's Plea 27 The Palace..where he resides, being but a borrowed house. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 245 He rode away..on a borrowed horse, which he never returned. 1887 N.E.D. at Borrowed Scotch Pop. Rime But when the borrowed days were gane, The three silly hoggs cam hirplan' hame. 1898 E.D.D. (at cited word) A man who lives on borrowed time lives on trespass-ground. Ay, all mine is borrowed time, noo. 1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xviii. 148 Brody was living on borrowed time. 1961 R. Jeffries Evidence of Accused iii. 26 After the age of forty-five one's living on borrowed time. < as lemmas |
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