英语词汇“to feast with panthers”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

to feast with panthers: (originally) to engage in illicit or prohibited sexual conduct; (later, more generally) to get too close to someone or something dangerous or untrustworthy; to live dangerously, to invite trouble.After Oscar Wilde's simile: see quot. 1897.

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1897 O. Wilde De Profundis in Lett. (1962) 492 People thought it dreadful of me to have entertained at dinner the evil things of life, and to have found pleasure in their company. But..it was like feasting with panthers; the danger was half the excitement.

1959 R. B. Asprey Panther's Feast ii. vii.179 When these palled he sent his body slave to feast with panthers and walk the thin line of the razor's edge in pursuit of danger and thrill and passion.

2019 Telegraph (Nexis) 22 Oct. I often had dealings with anguished members of the Royal family and their perplexed advisers... They tended to fall into one of two traps... The first was to be disdainfully distant from the media. The second was to get too close to us, feasting with panthers.

单词	to feast with panthers
释义	> as lemmas to feast with panthers to feast with panthers: (originally) to engage in illicit or prohibited sexual conduct; (later, more generally) to get too close to someone or something dangerous or untrustworthy; to live dangerously, to invite trouble.After Oscar Wilde's simile: see quot. 1897. ΚΠ 1897 O. Wilde De Profundis in Lett. (1962) 492 People thought it dreadful of me to have entertained at dinner the evil things of life, and to have found pleasure in their company. But..it was like feasting with panthers; the danger was half the excitement. 1959 R. B. Asprey Panther's Feast ii. vii.179 When these palled he sent his body slave to feast with panthers and walk the thin line of the razor's edge in pursuit of danger and thrill and passion. 2019 Telegraph (Nexis) 22 Oct. I often had dealings with anguished members of the Royal family and their perplexed advisers... They tended to fall into one of two traps... The first was to be disdainfully distant from the media. The second was to get too close to us, feasting with panthers. extracted from panthern. < as lemmas
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