英语词汇“to want a person's head on a platter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. to want (also demand, etc.) a person's head on a platter (also plate, etc.): to desire or demand the humiliation or punishment of a person for some (perceived) wrongdoing; esp. to desire or call for someone's resignation or dismissal, often as a scapegoat, after a political or professional error or scandal. Hence in similar phrases.With reference to the Biblical story of the daughter of Herodias, who requested the head of John the Baptist as her reward for dancing before her stepfather Herod Antipas (see quot. 1611).

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1611 Bible (King James) Matt. xiv. 8 Giue me heere Iohn Baptists head in a charger [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. dische; 1526 (Tyndale) platter; 1560 (Geneva) platter; 1582 (Rheims) dish; L. in disco, Gk. ἐπὶ πίνακι] . ]

1885 Washington Post 12 May 1/7 He asks to be allowed to keep his seat until July 1, but the delegation..demand his head on a charger immediately.

1922 Our World Oct. 39 The Pan-Germanist group in Parliament..had been clamoring for Chancellor Schober's head on a platter.

1958 B. Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond Some like it Hot (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 15 Jerry. What do you want—my head on a plate?

1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power viii. 128 The managing editor would not pull Williams out of Detroit, though there was no doubt that the industry wanted his head on a platter.

2011 D. W. Jacobson Katyn Order iv. 30 The station manager almost had my head on a platter when he found out.

单词	to want a person's head on a platter
释义	> as lemmas to want (also demand, etc.) a person's head on a platter (also plate, etc.) d. to want (also demand, etc.) a person's head on a platter (also plate, etc.): to desire or demand the humiliation or punishment of a person for some (perceived) wrongdoing; esp. to desire or call for someone's resignation or dismissal, often as a scapegoat, after a political or professional error or scandal. Hence in similar phrases.With reference to the Biblical story of the daughter of Herodias, who requested the head of John the Baptist as her reward for dancing before her stepfather Herod Antipas (see quot. 1611). ΚΠ 1611 Bible (King James) Matt. xiv. 8 Giue me heere Iohn Baptists head in a charger [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. dische; 1526 (Tyndale) platter; 1560 (Geneva) platter; 1582 (Rheims) dish; L. in disco, Gk. ἐπὶ πίνακι] . View more context for this quotation] 1885 Washington Post 12 May 1/7 He asks to be allowed to keep his seat until July 1, but the delegation..demand his head on a charger immediately. 1922 Our World Oct. 39 The Pan-Germanist group in Parliament..had been clamoring for Chancellor Schober's head on a platter. 1958 B. Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond Some like it Hot (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 15 Jerry. What do you want—my head on a plate? 1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power viii. 128 The managing editor would not pull Williams out of Detroit, though there was no doubt that the industry wanted his head on a platter. 2011 D. W. Jacobson Katyn Order iv. 30 The station manager almost had my head on a platter when he found out. extracted from headn.¹ < as lemmas
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