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单词 thunder-thumping
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thunder-thumping
thunder-thumping adj. Obsolete (a) striking with thunder (humorously bombastic); (b) sounding like thunder when beaten, as a drum; also figurative of language, ‘full of sound and fury’.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Lady of May in Arcadia (1598) sig. Bbb4 Now the thunderthumping Ioue transfund his dotes into your excellent formositie.
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Ded. xii The shriking trump, and thunder-thumping drum.
1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. iii. 192 They cannot..cloath their thoughts in thunder-thumping Phraseology.
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