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单词 to keep one's bill under wing
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to keep one's bill under wing
(b) to keep one's bill under wing: to remain quiet or inactive (like a sleeping bird). Obsolete. rare.[Cf. quot. c1425 at sense 1a.]
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the world > action or operation > inaction > be inactive [verb (intransitive)] > remain inactive
stillc1330
liec1374
stayc1540
to keep one's bill under wing1548
connive1667
to lie by1709
repose1817
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxiiij After this..the duke of Yorke..thought it mete neither lenger to dissimule, nor farther to kepe his bill vnder wyng.
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