单词 | to drink damnation |
释义 | > as lemmasto drink damnation to drink damnation: to make a toast to a person's unhappiness, failure, or spiritual perdition. With to. Now rare. ΚΠ 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 35 They drunk Damnation to Dr. Sacheverell. 1834 Vermont Chron. 21 Mar. 1/3 They drank damnation to all temperance men. 1888 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 Mar. 4/4 Stephen Blunt... Charged of drinking damnation to General Washington and all his army. 1957 F. Clune Fortune Hunters 28 Instead of buying a drink at the side-door of the closed bar, we raided our own emergency desert-crossing supplies, and drank damnation to Tom Playford's wowser laws. < as lemmas |
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