| 单词 | to eat the leek |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat the (or one's) leek b. to eat the (or one's) leek: to submit to humiliation under compulsion (in allusion to the Shakespeare passage below). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > be humiliated [verb (intransitive)] to light lowc1225 to lie lowa1275 to carry (also bear) coalsa1529 to eat the (or one's) leek1600 to lose caste1828 to eat dirt1857 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V v. i. 10 Brings bread and sault, and bids me Eate my Leeke. 1835 B. Disraeli Let. 20 Aug. in Corr. with Sister (1886) 43 It was whispered the Whigs meant to swallow the Corporation leek. 1859 All Year Round 12 Nov. 61 The Welshmen very humbly ate their leek. 1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 196 There was nothing for it but to obey... But it was a leek to eat, and there was no denying it. < as lemmas |
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