| 单词 | to have a soul above |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a soul above (something or someone) f. to have a soul above (something or someone) and variants: to be superior to or better than (something or someone); to have higher aspirations than.to have a soul above buttons: see button n. Phrases 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > aspire to or to do [verb (transitive)] > have higher aspirations than to have a soul above (something or someone)1639 1639 G. Rivers Heroinæ 128 Nature that gave her a soule above her sexe, studied a discretion proportionable to manage it. 1655 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes IV. 217 You Madam, who has a Soul above the vulgar reach. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 162/1 He had a Soul above all mean Considerations. 1795 G. Colman New Hay at Old Market i. i. 10 My father was an eminent Button-maker..but I had a soul above buttons... I panted for a liberal profession. 1889 E. Dowson Let. 27 Oct. (1967) 112 I have still a soul above tractlets. 1899 G. B. Burgin Bread of Tears i. iii. 51 Miss Mercy Tressock evidently wrote a very bad hand, and she hadn't a soul above blots: they were dotted copiously about on every page. 1908 J. J. Hissey Eng. Holiday with Car & Camera vii. 106 There are some poor men in England with a soul above receiving tips even for services rendered, but you do not find them among porters at railway stations. 1938 N. Marsh Death in White Tie xx. 237 ‘I tried to pretend I had a soul above social success,’ she said, ‘but I haven't at all.’ 2010 S. McCrumb Devil Amongst Lawyers 11 Once Henry Jernigan had possessed a soul above the cheap pratings of a tabloid newspaper. < as lemmas |
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