| 单词 | threatened men live long |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthreatened men live long a. That is the object of a threat; assailed by menaces. Proverb threatened men live long. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] > assailed by threats bithreta1400 menaced1440 threatened1533 shored1663 1533 Lady Wheathell in M. A. E. Wood Lett. Royal & Illustrious Ladies (1846) (modernized text) II. 91 There is an old saying,—‘threatened men live long’. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) ii. 287/1 It is an old Saying, That a threaten'd Man eats Bread. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 401 He took his post near Louvain, on the road between the two threatened cities. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 27 Nov. 5/3 The best-hated and the most threatened man in Germany. < as lemmas |
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