| 单词 | to live like a lord |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto live like a lord b. to live like a lord: to live in a grand, luxurious, or lavish manner. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > luxuriate [verb (intransitive)] > live luxuriously to live wella1375 to live like a lord1532 epicurize1600 to live (or be) in clover1710 to live like fighting cocks1795 1532 G. Hervet tr. Xenophon Treat. House Holde f. 10 The whiche..haue made them selfes ryche men, and haue gotten so great substance, that they liue lyke lordes? 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Eiiiv To lyue lyke a Lorde and make iolye chere. 1606 T. Whetenhall Disc. Abuses 41 Augustine..condemneth the Lordship of Bishops, yet he himselfe lived like a Lord. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors iii. 130 He might have lived like a Lord all the rest of his dayes. 1757 Hist. Two Mod. Adventurers ix. 121 What should you think, Nanny, said I, of seeing me live like a Lord in the World? 1780 ‘N. Ward Jr.’ Comforts Matrimony 76 As if my income could afford Th'expence of living like a Lord. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 5/1 If hops are pretty good..an average hopper can live like a lord. 1892 W. Harcourt Speech in Times 21 Apr. 10/3 The Chancellor of the Exchequer ‘lives like a lord’, which I understand to mean spending a great deal more than he possesses. 1958 A. Sillitoe Loneliness Long Distance Runner 35 Living like lords in a boarding house. 2013 Sun (Nexis) 16 June 44 Rental properties where you can live like a Lord for the weekend. < as lemmas |
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