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单词 to burn seasonable weather
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to burn seasonable weather
b. In figurative phrases: to burn daylight: to burn candles in the daytime, also to waste or consume the daylight. So †to burn seasonable weather: to fail to turn it to advantage, consume, waste (obsolete). to burn the (or one's) candle at both ends; see candle n.
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the world > time > spending time > spend time [verb (intransitive)] > waste time
prolong1449
protract1526
dally?1548
to burn daylight1597
lapse1667
to hinder time1712
niffle1775
to cut to waste1863
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [verb (intransitive)] > burn in the daytime
to burn daylight1597
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (intransitive)] > fail to take advantage
to burn seasonable weather1597
to miss of ——a1628
to make a balk of good ground1637
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iv. 43 Mer: We burne day light here. Rom: Nay thats not so. Mer: I meane sir in delay, We burne our lights by night, like Lampes by day. View more context for this quotation
1618 W. Raleigh Advice of Sonne in Remains (1661) 120 It is a strange piece of Art..to lie idely at the road, burning so seasonable weather.
a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) i. ii. 8 Hear. Her nose the candle... Sha. Put out your nose good Lady You burn day-light.
a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 92 Why burne wee day light? wee have time and place.
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iii. 100 They burn the day in game, and sport the faster.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 211 No Candles yet..don't let us burn Day-Light.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xiii. 324 Burn not daylight about it—we have short time to spare.
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