| 单词 | to drink, drain, etc to the dregs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto drink, drain, etc. to the dregs b. to drink, drain, etc. to the dregs, i.e. to the thick and turbid sediment: often figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > the end [phrase] > to the end to the lasta1393 to (unto, into) the (such, etc.) utterance1475 to drink, drain, etc. to the dregs1711 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 31 The following Licence of a Foreign Reign Did all the Dregs of bold Socinus drain. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 131 This manner..of drawing off a subject, or a peculiar mode of writing to the dregs. 1795 R. Southey Vision Maid of Orleans i. 260 Destined to drain the cup of bitterness, Even to its dregs. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain Concl. i. 199 To require of bard That to his dregs the tale should run. 1874 J. Stoughton Church of Revol. xiii. 318 This strange mortal, who had drunk the dregs of Antinomianism. < as lemmas |
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