单词 | to beat swords into ploughshares |
释义 | > as lemmasto beat swords into ploughshares c. Contrasted with ploughshare (in allusion to Isaiah ii. 4 and Micah iv. 3), as types respectively of war and peace: see ploughshare n. 1. Esp. in to beat swords into ploughshares. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > make peace [verb (intransitive)] to make grithc1000 grith11.. to make peace?a1160 peasec1300 to inform the peace?a1400 to bury the hatchet1535 seal1596 pacificate1646 to beat swords into ploughshares1924 Locarnize1925 1924 L. P. Smith in S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XVII. 38 We must take them [sc. words] as they come to our hands; if they are ploughshares which have been beaten into swords, tools which have been made into battle-axes, they are tools nevertheless for which we have no substitutes. 1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone x. 242 You know the old phrase about beating swords into plowshares—well I think you've beaten your grief into a sword. < as lemmas |
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