单词 | to make a saver |
释义 | > as lemmasto make (a person) a saver ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > one who escapes > one who escapes loss, but without gain saver1691 1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 71 S. What can I doe withall? I can not mend it. A. If I thought one hand would make me a sauer, I would play. a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. 58 You'd need have a clear way, because y'are a bad pricker. Mrs Low. Yet if my Bowl take bank, I shall go nigh To make my self a saver. 1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous xx. 388 Heaven were a poor Heaven, if it would not make us savers. 1691 J. Dryden King Arthur ii. 18 He puts the gain of Britain in a Scale, Which weighing with the loss of Emmeline, He thinks he's scarce a Saver. a1700 C. Sedley Poems in Wks. (1722) I. 46 We'll Game and give off Savers too. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Saver,..2. One who escapes loss, though without gain. < as lemmas |
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