| 单词 | to hug one's chains |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hug one's chains b. transferred and figurative. to hug one's chains, to delight in bondage. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > be a slave [verb (intransitive)] > delight in slavery to hug one's chains1719 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 213 Staine the sunne with fogge, as sometime clowds, When they doe hug him in their melting bosomes. View more context for this quotation a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 6 Were many English plants as rare as they are useful we would hug in our hands, what we now trample under our feet. 1719 E. Young Busiris v. 69 Now from my Soul I hug these welcome Chains Which shew you all Busiris. 1769 T. Gray Ode at Installation Duke of Grafton 6 Servitude that hugs her chain. 1835 N. P. Willis Melanie 60 As the miser hugs his treasure. < as lemmas |
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