英语词汇“to sing small”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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to sing small.

†a. To sing with a small or low voice. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Minurizo.., to synge smalle, or to feyne in syngynge.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 94 Are not most of our kings being when they sing small and fine [Gk. μινυρίσωσι], after a puling maner, saluted Apolloes for their musicke.

a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women iv. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 180 I marvell'd she sung so small indeed, being no Maid.

b. colloquial. To adopt a humble tone or manner; to use less assertive language, or to qualify or withdraw a previous statement; to say nothing, to be silent or dumb. Also English regional (Essex): †to put up with less than was expected (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > be humble [verb (intransitive)]

lowc1175

to be of low sail1390

peep1736

to sing small1738

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)]

to hold one's tonguec897

to keep one's tonguec897

to be (hold oneself) stilla1000

to say littleOE

to hold one's mouthc1175

to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175

to keep (one's) silence?c1225

to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275

stillc1330

peacec1395

mum1440

to say neither buff nor baff1481

to keep (also play) mum1532

to charm the tonguec1540

to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546

hush1548

to play (at) mumbudgeta1564

not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590

to keep a still tongue in one's head1729

to sing small1738

to sew up1785

let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814

to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824

to choke back1844

mumchance1854

to keep one's trap shut1899

to choke up1907

to belt up1949

to keep (or stay) shtum1958

shtum1958

1738 W. Quaint Humours of Road iii. 40 Sing small, here's Com—pany coming.

1751 T. Pellow Hist. Long Captivity 370 The Moors were in a very great Hurry, calling aloud to know what we were doing..endeavouring to get themselves upon Deck, when I told them to sing small.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xviii. 111 I must myself sing small in her company!;—I will never meet at hard-edge with her.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Sing small, to be humbled, confounded, or abashed, to have little or nothing to say for one's self.

1839 C. Clark John Noakes & Mary Styles 24 If e'er their jars they've maade ya feel, This gud adwice you'll call; For sich warman's gripe—or I'll be darn'd—'Tood soon maake ya sing small.

c1865 W. E. Gladstone Let. in J. Morley Life Gladstone (1903) III. viii. vii. 114 Sir R. Peel indorsed the remonstrance, and I had to sing small.

1921 H. Garland Daughter of Middle Border 146 I began to sing small. ‘Don't expect too much of the Garland Homestead... It is very far from being the home I should like you to be mistress of.’

1932 C. Sforza European Dictatorships iii. 28 In a debate in the Senate, Mussolini knew how to sing small expressing his horror of the crime.

2000 D. Lambdin King's Captain vi. 70 Most tykes don't get even that, so sing small and be grateful.

单词	to sing small
释义	> as lemmas to sing small Phrases to sing small. †a. To sing with a small or low voice. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Minurizo.., to synge smalle, or to feyne in syngynge. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 94 Are not most of our kings being when they sing small and fine [Gk. μινυρίσωσι], after a puling maner, saluted Apolloes for their musicke. a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women iv. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 180 I marvell'd she sung so small indeed, being no Maid. b. colloquial. To adopt a humble tone or manner; to use less assertive language, or to qualify or withdraw a previous statement; to say nothing, to be silent or dumb. Also English regional (Essex): †to put up with less than was expected (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > be humble [verb (intransitive)] lowc1175 to be of low sail1390 peep1736 to sing small1738 the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] to hold one's tonguec897 to keep one's tonguec897 to be (hold oneself) stilla1000 to say littleOE to hold one's mouthc1175 to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 to keep (one's) silence?c1225 to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275 stillc1330 peacec1395 mum1440 to say neither buff nor baff1481 to keep (also play) mum1532 to charm the tonguec1540 to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546 hush1548 to play (at) mumbudgeta1564 not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590 to keep a still tongue in one's head1729 to sing small1738 to sew up1785 let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814 to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824 to choke back1844 mumchance1854 to keep one's trap shut1899 to choke up1907 to belt up1949 to keep (or stay) shtum1958 shtum1958 1738 W. Quaint Humours of Road iii. 40 Sing small, here's Com—pany coming. 1751 T. Pellow Hist. Long Captivity 370 The Moors were in a very great Hurry, calling aloud to know what we were doing..endeavouring to get themselves upon Deck, when I told them to sing small. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xviii. 111 I must myself sing small in her company!;—I will never meet at hard-edge with her. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Sing small, to be humbled, confounded, or abashed, to have little or nothing to say for one's self. 1839 C. Clark John Noakes & Mary Styles 24 If e'er their jars they've maade ya feel, This gud adwice you'll call; For sich warman's gripe—or I'll be darn'd—'Tood soon maake ya sing small. c1865 W. E. Gladstone Let. in J. Morley Life Gladstone (1903) III. viii. vii. 114 Sir R. Peel indorsed the remonstrance, and I had to sing small. 1921 H. Garland Daughter of Middle Border 146 I began to sing small. ‘Don't expect too much of the Garland Homestead... It is very far from being the home I should like you to be mistress of.’ 1932 C. Sforza European Dictatorships iii. 28 In a debate in the Senate, Mussolini knew how to sing small expressing his horror of the crime. 2000 D. Lambdin King's Captain vi. 70 Most tykes don't get even that, so sing small and be grateful. extracted from smalladv. < as lemmas
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