| 单词 | to tell tales |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto tell (bear, bring, carry) tales c. plural. Things told so as to violate confidence or secrecy; reports of private matters not proper to be divulged; idle or mischievous gossip; esp. in to tell (bear, bring, carry) tales; tales out of school (see school n.1 Phrases 6); proverbial phr. dead men tell no tales. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] speechc1000 wordOE hearinga1300 opinion1340 talesa1375 famea1387 inklinga1400 slandera1400 noising1422 rumour?a1425 bruit1477 nickinga1500 commoninga1513 roarc1520 murmura1522 hearsay?1533 cry1569 scandal1596 vogue1626 discourse1677 sough1716 circulation1775 gossip1811 myth1849 breeze1879 sound1899 potin1922 dirt1926 rumble1929 skinny1938 labrish1942 lie and story1950 scam1964 he-say-she-say1972 factoid1973 ripple1977 goss1985 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 334 Be no tellere of talis but trewe to þi lord. c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 353 Now we have golde No talys xul be tolde. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tales to brynge or tell, perfero. 1560 T. Becon Wks. II. 97 He that hath his body laden with meat & drinke is no more mete to prai vnto god then a dead man is to tel a tale. 1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat i. i. sig. B2 Peace infant, Tales out a schoole take heed you will be britchd else. 1664 J. Wilson Andronicus Comnenius i. iv. 14 'Twere best To knock 'um i' th head, and give it out The Soldiers did it... The dead can tell no tales. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. i. 48 There is a Proverb..which saies, That Dead-men tell no Tales; but let your Souldiers apply it at their own Perils. 1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant v. ii. 76 Ay, ay, Dead Men, tell no Tales. 1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible I. i. 73 Joseph..told Tales of them to his Father. 1838 G. P. R. James Robber I. vi. 129 Dead men tell no tales. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. iv. 67 Where are the stories of those who have not risen..who have ended in desperation?.. Dead men tell no tales. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 12 Feb. 2/3 Telling tales is reprobated by English public-school boys—rightly, in so far as the condemnation is directed against getting others into trouble for your own profit or pleasure. 1974 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Other Story xv. 122 ‘There was only one sure way to do it.’ ‘To kill him?’.. ‘Yes. Dead men, they say, can tell no tales.’ < as lemmas |
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