| 单词 | to proclaim on the house-top |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto proclaim (also cry, declare, shout) (something) on (also from, upon) the house-top(s) to proclaim (also cry, declare, shout) (something) on (also from, upon) the house-top(s) and variants: to make public, esp. something personal or secret; to bring to widespread attention. [After Luke 12:3 (see quot. 1582 at main sense).] ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > announce or proclaim [verb (transitive)] > loudly trumpc1384 blazec1450 depredicate1550 abuccinate1569 blazon1577 ebuccinate1588 to proclaim (also cry, declare, shout) (something) on (also from, upon) the house-top(s)?1591 exclaima1593 trumpet1609 trumpet-tonguea1616 chanticleer1810 bugle1837 horn1874 ?1591 H. Barrow Brief Discouerie False Church 178 Such an enemie am I to true knowledg & learning, that I would not haue yt any longer kept secret.., but euen proclaimed vpon the house top in euerie Citie & in euery street. 1696 M. Astell Serious Proposal to Ladies (ed. 3) 85 Deceivers..need not creep into Houses, since they have Authority to proclaim their Errors on the House top. 1738 J. Wesley Let. 30 Oct. (1931) I. 263 What sins they were which till then reigned over me, and from which by the grace of God I am now free, I am ready to declare on the house-top, if it may be for the glory of God. 1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. xxxii. 136 Though whisper'd in the hay-loft, Fame caught the notes with her brazen trumpet and sounded them upon the house-top. 1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate I. iv. 91 It was not bruited abroad and proclaimed from the house-tops, but it was indignantly whispered about in private. 1881 Temple Bar Oct. 147 Randulf knew, as well as if some one were constantly shouting it aloud from the house-tops, that his father worshipped him. 1911 C. G. Robertson Eng. under Hanoverians ii. iv. 345 To cry on the house-tops that it was merry in England before the new industry came up. 1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days iii. 52 If truly you disapprove of the British Empire, you would not be talking of it privately here. You would be proclaiming from the housetops. 2010 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Mar. 4 I've been wanting to shout it from the housetops that I have the best daughter in the world and this is my big chance. < as lemmas |
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