| 单词 | bread and salt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbread and salt bread and salt n. now somewhat rare used in various expressions with reference to the custom of using bread and salt to solemnize an oath, affirmation, etc. to take bread and salt: to take an oath, to swear. by bread and salt: used as an oath. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (intransitive)] > swear or take an oath sweara900 sacrec1380 oathc1450 bread and salt1575 to take one's davy1764 buff1819 the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene loOE spi?c1225 how mischance——?c1330 with mischance!c1330 by my hoodc1374 by my sheath1532 by the mouse-foot1550 what the (also a) goodyear1570 bread and salt1575 by Jove1575 in (good) truly1576 by these hilts1598 by the Lord Harry1693 by the pody cody1693 by jingo!1694 splutter1707 by jing!1786 I snore1790 declare1811 by the hokey1825 shiver my timbers1834 by the (great) horn spoon1842 upon my Sam1879 for goodness' sake1885 yerra1892 for the love of Mike1896 by the hokey fiddle1922 knickers1971 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle v. ii. sig. Eii No other wight, saue she, by bred & salt. 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore v. ii. 57 He tooke bread and salt..that he would neuer open his lips. 1778 T. Nugent Grand Tour (ed. 3) II. 86 The custom..of swearing new comers by bread and salt..is said to have begun here. 1866 J. G. Edgar Runnymede xliv. 250 ‘By bread and salt!’ exclaimed he, regaining his courage; ‘they are gone—vanished.’ 1890 R. Kipling in Eclectic Mag. Jan. 138 They have taken the oath of the Brother-in-Blood on leavened bread and salt. 1965 C. Duff Mysterious People v. 117 Words spoken by the bride and groom and repeated by the officiating chief, followed by an additional symbolical pledge such as the rite of bread and salt. < as lemmas |
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