| 单词 | to fry in one's own grease |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fry in one's own grease 3. intransitive. To undergo the operation of cooking with fat in a pan. rare in lit. sense. to fry in one's own grease (also †in passive): originally transferred, said e.g. of persons burning alive, and figurative to be tormented by one's own passions; now only, to suffer the consequences of one's own folly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > suffer anguish or torment [verb (intransitive)] > by one's own passions or folly to fry in one's own greasec1386 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > be or become foolish [verb (intransitive)] > act foolishly > suffer as a result to fry in one's own greasec1386 c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 487 In his owene grece I made him frye For angre, and for verray Jalousye. a1400 Coer de L. 4409 Beter it is that we out renne, Thenne as wrehches in house to brenne, And frye inne oure owne gres! a1415 J. Lydgate Temple Glas (1891) 14 Thus is he fryed in his owene gres, To-rent & torn with his owene rage. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Eiiiv She is as fiers, as a lyon of cotsolde. She fryeth in her owne grease. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 78 Let..the woods and forests blaze away, and the fat soyl of the earth fry in its own grease; these things will not affect us [the rocks and mountains]. < as lemmas |
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