| 单词 | to blot one's copybook |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto blot one's copybook a. A book in which copies are written or printed for pupils to imitate. to blot one's copybook (colloquial): to commit a fault, misdemeanour or gaffe which spoils one's record. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > textbook or book of instructions > [noun] > school book schoolbook1581 copybook1598 task-book1624 class book1788 cram-book1858 workbook1873 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > blunder [verb (intransitive)] > embarrassingly mistread1597 to blot one's copybook1935 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 42 Faire as a text B in a Coppie booke . View more context for this quotation 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iv. 30 Insteede of setting of copies..let euery one haue a little copie booke fastened to the top of his writing booke. 1657 Cocker (title) A Copy Book of Fair Writing. 1763 W. Borlase in Philos. Trans. 1752 (Royal Soc.) 52 510 Another part of the same flash..tore and dispersed the copy-books of the scholars. 1885 J. Payn Talk of Town I. 41 Words of wisdom, but..cut and dried, like proverbs from a copy-book. 1893 Mod. Vere Foster's Drawing Copy-books. 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night v. 85 Now, it was the College that had blotted its copy-book and had called her in as one calls in a specialist. 1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 243/1 Its Founder..had badly blotted his copybook by making a speech in favour of the beheaded Earl of Essex. < as lemmas |
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