| 单词 | to swallow a gudgeon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto swallow a gudgeon b. A bait, something swallowed greedily or credulously: in to gape for gudgeons, to swallow a gudgeon, to give a gudgeon. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] neteOE angleOE grinc1000 trapc1175 caltropa1300 lacec1330 girnc1375 espyc1380 webc1400 hook1430 settingc1430 lure1463 stall?a1500 stalea1529 toil1548 intrap1550 hose-net1554 gudgeon1577 mousetrap1577 trapfall1596 ensnarementa1617 decoy1655 cobweba1657 trepan1665 snap1844 deadfall1860 Judas1907 tanglefoot1908 catch-221963 trip-wire1971 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 91/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Do you thinke that James was so madde, as to gape for Gogions, or so vngracious, as to sell his trueth for a peece of Ireland? 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 34 But what fishe soeuer you bee you haue made both mee and Philautus to swallow a Gudgen. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 42 b To force us to beleeve that which is false, which is nothing else but to give us a gudgin, and flout us. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sciarpellone, a grosse ly, an vnluckie tale, as we say a gudgeon or lying for the whetstone. 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe i. sig. B3v Heres a most sweet Gudgeon swallowed, is there not? 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse Ep. to Rdr. 2 I know right well thou usest not to gape after gougins. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote IV. xxix. 221 The Gullings and Gudgeons that he had given him. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 122 Readers would never be induced to swallow such a Gudgeon, as that seven-penny Men should be fed with Venison. 1892 National Observer 23 July 235/1 It has educated Hodge into an increased readiness to gorge any gudgeon that may be offered him. < as lemmas |
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