单词 | to dance in a net |
释义 | > as lemmasto dance (also march, walk, etc.) in a net ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > due to imperfect concealment to dance (also march, walk, etc.) in a net1534 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > be undetected dare1382 to play at peep-arm1631 to dance (also march, walk, etc.) in a net1680 1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Civ Lyke as a foole myght haue iettyd in a net Beleuyng hymselfe..To be perceyued of no lyuyng body. 1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres i. 490 Of such as have enchayned them selves in the golden fetters of fantasie, and having bewrayed them selves to the whole world, do yet conjecture that they walke unseene in a net. 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. (1843) vi. 242 Now you haue gotten a fine net to dance naked in, that no ignorant blind buzzard can see you. 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iv. sig. K4v Whose reconciled sonne, Marcht in a net, and thought him selfe vnseene. 1621 R. Brathwait Times Curtaine Drawne sig. D3 Fate, sayth the Ethnicke, is a firme decree, Which, though foreseene, may not preuented be Wherby (poore snakes) by pur-blind fate they'r set Like Bedlam fooles, to dance in Errours net. 1622 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 2nd Bk. ix. 156 This old Lecher her husband, thinking that he had danced in a net, from the iealousie and suspition of all the world, in thus affecting his sonnes wife. 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper ii. i. 12 I have danc'd in a Net before my Father,..retir'd to my Chamber undiscover'd. 1704 Poems on Affairs of State III. 325 In open Field with open Foes you've met, Take either side it is an equal Bet; But here your Enemies dance in a Net. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. xii. 301 You must not think to dance in a net before old Jack Hildebrod. < as lemmas |
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