英语词汇“to draw the long bow”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

colloquial. to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow and variants: to make exaggerated or untrue statements; to tell tall tales. Cf. longbowman n. 1.In quot. 1710 with both literal and figurative meaning.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase]

to go beyond the moon?c1430

to cast beyond the moon1559

to lay on load?1562

to lay it on with a trowela1616

all (his) geese are swans1621

to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667

to lay it on thick1740

to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778

to come it1796

to make a thing about (also of)1813

to draw with the long-bow1823

to pitch it strong1823

to overegg the pudding1845

to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865

to god it1870

to strong it1964

to stretch it (or things)1965

1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions i. 8 There came to us several Tradesmen; the first of them a Poor Rogue that made profession of drawing the long Bow. [No formal equivalent in the Spanish original.]

1710 E. Ward Satyrical Refl. Clubs V. xx. 198 The only Exercise that I particularly delight in, is drawing the long Bow.

1789 Parson's Wife II. 159 Beauvais's character was no otherwise reproachable than from his propensity to draw the long bow.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 171 From traveller Mandeville, liar surnam'd, To moderns at shooting the long-bow far fam'd.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VIII cxxxviii. 180 I have drawn much less with a long bow Than my forerunners.

1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel ii I dare say I drew a number of long bows about her.

1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 97 Critics, who have twitted me with ‘drawing the long bow’.

1909 Railroad Telegrapher Dec. 1948/1 Drawing the long bow is confined to no people or class.

1936 C. Rourke Audubon vii. 126 It was not for nothing that he had consorted with western hunters who could pull the long bow and spin the tall tale.

2005 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Aug. e31/3 It's at this point that the reader develops a sneaking suspicion that the author's many military skills include an aptitude for pulling the long bow.

单词	to draw the long bow
释义	> as lemmas to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow colloquial. to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow and variants: to make exaggerated or untrue statements; to tell tall tales. Cf. longbowman n. 1.In quot. 1710 with both literal and figurative meaning. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase] to go beyond the moon?c1430 to cast beyond the moon1559 to lay on load?1562 to lay it on with a trowela1616 all (his) geese are swans1621 to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667 to lay it on thick1740 to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778 to come it1796 to make a thing about (also of)1813 to draw with the long-bow1823 to pitch it strong1823 to overegg the pudding1845 to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865 to god it1870 to strong it1964 to stretch it (or things)1965 1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions i. 8 There came to us several Tradesmen; the first of them a Poor Rogue that made profession of drawing the long Bow. [No formal equivalent in the Spanish original.] 1710 E. Ward Satyrical Refl. Clubs V. xx. 198 The only Exercise that I particularly delight in, is drawing the long Bow. 1789 Parson's Wife II. 159 Beauvais's character was no otherwise reproachable than from his propensity to draw the long bow. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 171 From traveller Mandeville, liar surnam'd, To moderns at shooting the long-bow far fam'd. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VIII cxxxviii. 180 I have drawn much less with a long bow Than my forerunners. 1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel ii I dare say I drew a number of long bows about her. 1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 97 Critics, who have twitted me with ‘drawing the long bow’. 1909 Railroad Telegrapher Dec. 1948/1 Drawing the long bow is confined to no people or class. 1936 C. Rourke Audubon vii. 126 It was not for nothing that he had consorted with western hunters who could pull the long bow and spin the tall tale. 2005 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Aug. e31/3 It's at this point that the reader develops a sneaking suspicion that the author's many military skills include an aptitude for pulling the long bow. extracted from longbown. < as lemmas
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