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单词 to have a sheep's eye
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to have a sheep's eye
b. to have a sheep's eye: (a) to be timorous; (b) see quot. 1711. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > be timorous [verb (intransitive)]
to have a sheep's eye1598
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)]
havilonc1400
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to draw a snecka1500
craft1530
to play (the) fox1599
politize1623
art1637
to have a sheep's eye1711
1598 S. Gosson Trumpet of Warre sig. D5v Espialles were sent out to discouer the land of Promise, some of them hadde a sheepes eye:..Caleb had a Lions eye. [See Numbers xiii. 30, 31.]
1711 Spectator No. 250. ⁋5 We say such an one has a Sheep's Eye, not so much to denote the Innocence as the simple Slyness of the Cast.
extracted from sheep's eyesn.
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