| 单词 | to limn the water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto limn the water 4. Prov. to limn the water, limn (something) on water: said of something transient or futile. ΚΠ 1620 F. Bacon Poems (Grosart) 49 Who then to fraile Mortality shall trust, But limmes the Water, or but writes in dust. 1692 Vindiciæ Carolinæ ix. 73 All he had done was but a kind of Limming the Water, to them. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxx. 4 A woman's words..Limn them on ebbing floods, write on a wintery gale [L. In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua]. < as lemmas |
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