单词 | to heap coals of fire on a person's head |
释义 | > as lemmasto heap coals of fire on a person's head P2. to heap coals of fire on a person's head and variants: to cause a person to feel remorse or regret, esp. by responding to evil or unkind behaviour with kindness or benevolence.With allusion to Proverbs 25:21–22: ‘If thine enemie be hungry, giue him bread to eate: and if hee be thirstie, giue him water to drinke. For thou shalt heape coales of fire vpon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee’ (King James Bible; cf. quot. a1382). See also Romans 12:20. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (intransitive)] > feel remorse > produce remorse by requiting evil with good to heap coals of fire on a person's headc1400 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > be repentant or contrite [verb (intransitive)] > awaken remorse > by requiting evil with good to heap coals of fire on a person's headc1400 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxv. 23 If he thristith, ȝif hym watir to drinke; forsothe colis [L. prunas] thou shalt gadere togidere vp on the hed of hym; and the Lord shal ȝelde to thee.] c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. l. 144 Lere þe to louye..Þine enemye in al wyse euene forth with þi-selue. Cast coles on his hed. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B4 Doe good against euill: and heape hoat burning coales vpon his head. 1676 J. Duport Three Serm. 20 In lieu of their heaping stones on his head, he had heapt coals of fire on theirs, by his ardent zeal and affection for 'um. 1759 Universal Mag. Dec. 297/1 The Duke of York was much against the bill, which was imputed to the Chancellor, and served to heap coals of fire upon his head. 1800 T. Green Diary 23 Apr. (1810) 217 We might have..heaped coals of hotter fire on the heads of our frantic aggressors. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. xii. 230 My dear! I shall never forgive mysel, if my wicked words to-night are any stumbling-block in your path. See how the Lord has put coals of fire on my head! 1902 R. H. McCready & H. M. Tyndall Cruise of Celtic around Mediterranean 360 The cost is so little that it always seems as if our ‘English cousins’ were heaping coals of fire on our heads for throwing over the tea in Boston Harbor. 2007 Times (Nexis) 22 Dec. 71 I should invite the neighbours round to Christmas drinks and mince pies, in order to heap coals of fire upon their prickly and un-neighbourly heads. < as lemmas |
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