| 单词 | to come home by unhappiness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come home by unhappiness b. In various phrases designating the action of coming to grief or suffering some misfortune, as to come home by unhappiness. Also allusively with reference to a place or landmark (e.g. see fool's acre n. at fool n.1 and adj. Compounds 4b and Weeping Cross n. 2). Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > happen unfortunately [verb (intransitive)] > suffer misfortune or a mishap mishappenc1230 mishapc1385 mistidec1390 spill1390 misbetide?a1400 misfalla1400 mistime1402 misfortune?a1425 misbefallc1450 miscapea1535 mischancea1542 to come home by unhappinessc1555 mislucka1617 buy1825 pratfall1940 schlimazel1963 c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Dvv You thinke they come home by Tiburne, or S. Thomas of Watrings, and so they do in dede. 1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. C7 An hundred thousand of them came home by weeping crosse. 1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. I2 They..come home by Need-ham crosse, and fooles acre. a1610 J. Healey tr. Cebes' Table in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 154 He that either refuseth it or misapplyeth it, comes home by unhappinesse and ruine. 1741 J. Ozell tr. P. de B. de Brantôme Spanish Rhodomontades 56 Making an Irruption into Provence, he came home by Weeping-Cross. 1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain vii. 180 You watch out, cully, or you'll come home by Weeping Cross. < as lemmas |
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