| 单词 | to cross a fortune-teller's hand with silver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cross a fortune-teller's hand with silver b. to cross a fortune-teller's hand with silver: to describe crossing lines on her hand with a silver coin given by the consulter: hence to give money to. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > fortune-telling > tell someone's fortune [verb (transitive)] > give money to cross a fortune-teller's hand with silver1766 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 130. ¶1 An honest Dairy-maid who crosses their Hands with a Piece of Silver every Summer. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. x. 90 A fortune-telling gypsey..no sooner appeared, than my girls came running to me for a shilling a piece to cross her hand with silver. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 54 Crossing their hands with coin..How quak'd the young to hear what things they knew. 1838 D. Jerrold Men of Char. I. 137 Every domestic..had crossed her [the fortune-teller's] hand and looked on future life. < as lemmas |
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