英语词汇“to set fire to the thames”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to set the Thames on fire (see fire n. and int. Phrases 2k) ( †to set fire to the Thames, †to burn the Thames), to do something marvellous, to work wonders. Usually with negative = to work no wonders, never to distinguish oneself.A writer in Notes & Queries of 25 Mar. 1865, p. 249, surmised that Thames here was originally temse a sieve, which he supposed that an active fellow might set on fire by force of friction. This conjecture has no basis of fact. The phrase has also been used of the Rhine (a1638) and other rivers. See Notes & Queries 8th s. VI. 502, and Skeat Stud. Past. §205–6.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > be a matter of wonder [verb (intransitive)] > perform wonders

to work a wonderOE

Thamesa1777

to burn the Thames1787

a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) iii. 81 Matt Minnikin..an honest burgoise,..won't set fire to the Thames, though he lives near the Bridge.

1787 J. Wolcot Sir J. Banks & Emp. of Morocco 6 Whose modest wisdom..never aims To find the longitude, or burn the Thames.

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) He will not find out a way to set the Thames on fire; he will not make any wonderful discoveries, he is no conjurer.

1886 W. E. Norris My Friend Jim II. i. 2 I hardly expect him to set the Thames on fire; but I hope his mother will never have reason to be ashamed of him.

单词	to set fire to the thames
释义	> as lemmas to set fire to the Thames b. to set the Thames on fire (see fire n. and int. Phrases 2k) ( †to set fire to the Thames, †to burn the Thames), to do something marvellous, to work wonders. Usually with negative = to work no wonders, never to distinguish oneself.A writer in Notes & Queries of 25 Mar. 1865, p. 249, surmised that Thames here was originally temse a sieve, which he supposed that an active fellow might set on fire by force of friction. This conjecture has no basis of fact. The phrase has also been used of the Rhine (a1638) and other rivers. See Notes & Queries 8th s. VI. 502, and Skeat Stud. Past. §205–6. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > be a matter of wonder [verb (intransitive)] > perform wonders to work a wonderOE Thamesa1777 to burn the Thames1787 a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) iii. 81 Matt Minnikin..an honest burgoise,..won't set fire to the Thames, though he lives near the Bridge. 1787 J. Wolcot Sir J. Banks & Emp. of Morocco 6 Whose modest wisdom..never aims To find the longitude, or burn the Thames. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) He will not find out a way to set the Thames on fire; he will not make any wonderful discoveries, he is no conjurer. 1886 W. E. Norris My Friend Jim II. i. 2 I hardly expect him to set the Thames on fire; but I hope his mother will never have reason to be ashamed of him. extracted from Thamesn. < as lemmas
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