| 单词 | to sing placebo |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sing (a) placebo ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)] fain?c1225 fawnc1325 to make placebo1340 fagea1382 curryc1400 to curry favela1420 to claw (a person's) toea1500 to curry favour?1518 to be at the school of placebo1554 to play (with) placebo1583 insinuatea1593 wriggle1601 lick1602 sycophantize1605 gnathonize1619 pickthank1621 supparasitate1623 ingratiate1647 slaver1730 toad-eat1766 slaum1787 to eat (any one's) toads1788 toad1802 bootlick1846 toady1861 to suck in1899 smoodge1906 smarm1911 arse-lick1928 bum-suck1930 to suck round1931 ass-lick1937 brown-nose1939 suck-hole1961 weasel1980 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 60 Þe uerþe zenne [sc. flattery] is þat huanne hi alle zingeþ Placebo, þet is to zigge, ‘mi lhord zayþ zoþ; mi lhord deþ wel’. c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 617 Flatereres ben the deueles chapelleyns that syngen euere Placebo. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 124 (MED) Who so louithe his frende, he shulde not flater hym..and not forto plaie with placebo [Fr. faire le placebo]. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xciii. 126 He ought..not flatere hym ne make the placebo. 1554 J. Knox Godly Let. sig. A viijv Nowe they haue bene at the skoole of Placebo, and ther they haue lerned..to daunse as the deuill lyst to pype. 1583 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 349 Plaing placebo into princes faces. 1607–8 F. Bacon Speech Gen. Naturalization in Wks. (1879) I. 467 If any man shall think that I have sung a placebo, for mine own particular, I would have him know that I am not so unseen in the world. 1679 J. P. Let. to Friend in Country 3 Where every one would sing a Placebo to the rising Sun [the next Heir to the Crown]. < as lemmas |
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