单词 | to a proverb |
释义 | > as lemmasto a proverb ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [adverb] > much talked about > proverbially proverbially1653 to a proverb1743 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xiii. f. 296v The admirable prowes of Amphialus (by a contrarie) brought forth the remembrance of the cowardise of Clinias: in so much, as it grew almost to a prouerb. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Cor. i. 26) Hence it grew to a Proverb.., That Hell was paved with Priests shaven crowns, and great mens head-pieces. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. iii. 13 Abdera a Town of Thrace, noted for the simplicity of the Inhabitants which grew even to a proverb. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 48 Who is so silly as to be Ignoramus to a Proverb? 1743 in A. D. Candler et al. Georgia Rec. (c1913–16) XXIII. 513 He had then recourse to his Usual Salve, (well known, to all persons at Savannah with whom he converses, even to a proverb) That He was Seventy Years of Age, His Memory decayed, etc. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. xii. 271 That revengeful disposition, of which your sex have been accused even to a proverb. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. Pref. 7 To depend on foreigners, partial, to a proverb, to their own country. 1817 J. Evans Excursion to Windsor 482 A country, swampy even to a proverb. 1865 E. C. Gaskell Cousin Phillis ii. 56 Our air here is good to a proverb. 1888 Times 21 Jan. 15/3 The fondness of the missel bird for the mistletoe was remarked on by the Romans, even to a proverb. < as lemmas |
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