单词 | to burn the rump |
释义 | > as lemmasto burn (also roast) the rump b. spec. Such a piece of meat burned or roasted symbolically on a bonfire to mark the final downfall of the Rump Parliament (see Rump Parliament n. at Compounds 2 and cf. sense 4b). Chiefly in to burn (also roast) the rump. Also in extended use. Now historical. ΚΠ 1660 S. Pepys Diary 11 Feb. (1970) I. 52 In King-streete, seven or eight [bonfires]; and all along burning and roasting and drinking for rumps. c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 224 When the youths were gathering to make bonfires to burne the rump, as the custome of those mad dayes [sc. 1660] were. 1680 London Gaz. No. 1497/4 Several Apprentices..had formed a design..to come together in a considerable number on the Kings Birth-day, as they pretended, To Burn the Rump. 1754 Question Previous to Bill paying National Debt 11 It became at length more popular to burn the Rump than it had been to burn the Pope. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 434 The rabble in town and country vied with each other in burning the ‘Rump’; and the literal emblem was hung by chains on gallowses, with a bonfire underneath, while the cries of ‘Let us burn the Rump! Let us roast the Rump’ were echoed every where. 1871 W. D. Christie Anthony Ashley Cooper II. xvii. 362 Thomas Alford, who had been apprehended as leader in a design of burning the Rump in the City on the King's birthday. 1924 C. W. Camp Artisan in Elizabethan Lit. iv. 140 In the fifth act [of John Tatham's The Rump (1660)] apprentices..enter with faggots on their shoulders and rumps of mutton on spits. ‘Roast the rump’ is their cry: they are about to make a public ceremony that represents the destruction of the Rump Parliament. 2007 J. Miller Cities Divided vii. 168 The Tories of Salisbury responded [to the Exclusion Crisis of 1681] by burning the pope..; at Shaftesbury they burned the Rump. < as lemmas |
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