| 单词 | to put one's finger in one's eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put one's finger in one's eye (b) to put one's finger in one's eye and variants: to make oneself (appear to) weep by poking one's eye; to weep, cry, esp. foolishly or ostentatiously (now chiefly in the nursery rhyme cited in quot. 1842). Cf. to pipe one's eye at pipe v.1 8b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] greetc725 weepc900 tearc950 plore1373 beweepc1374 to put one's finger in one's eye1447 waterc1450 lachryme1490 cryc1532 lerma1533 tricklec1540 to water one's plants1542 to show tears1553 shower1597 issuea1616 lachrymate1623 sheda1632 pipe1671 to take a pipe1671 to pipe one's eye (also eyes)?1789 twine1805 to let fall1816 whinnya1825 blub1866 slobber1875 blart1896 skrike1904 water-cart1914 1447 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) i. 19 Germyn putte his fynger yn his ye and wepte. 1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 76 Of which newes so soone as his wife was partaker, for fashion sake shee put finger in the eye, and attired herselfe in mourning apparell. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 207 No longer will I be a foole, To put the finger in the eie and weepe. View more context for this quotation c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 1256 Would one have thought ye foolish Ape would putt the finger in ye Eye, & tell it Daddy! 1738 Inconsoleables iii. 49 Have we not enough in every Street, but we must put a Finger in Eye, and cry for Foreign Ware? 1842 J. O. Halliwell Nursery Rhymes 103 Cry, baby, cry, Put your finger in your eye, And tell your mother it was I. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren 188 He wonders if he will ever escape from the shame of the hateful verses: Cry, baby, cry, Put your finger in your eye, And tell your mother It wasn't I. 2007 C. Rush Hellfire & Herring i. 19 Cry baby cry, put your finger in your eye, tell your mother it wasn't I. I arrived on the wave-swept rocky shore, the sunken sea-dreams of my folk locked hard in my head. < as lemmas |
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