| 单词 | to wear to a shadow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wear (oneself or another) to a shadow f. Used hyperbolically to designate a person extremely emaciated or feeble. Frequently in to wear (oneself or another) to a shadow. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person dwininga1400 molla1425 impotenta1513 gristlea1556 weakling1576 puler1579 puling1579 shadow1588 shotten herring1598 doddle1681 sickrel1699 seven-months1724 wandought1726 wallydraigle1736 wreck1795 werewolf1808 windlestraw1818 weed1825 shammock1828 sickling1834 forcible feeble1844 dwindle1847 weedling1849 crock1876 feebling1887 asthenic1893 dodderer1907 pencil-neck1956 burnt-out case1959 weakie1959 1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. C3 This tragicall discourse of fortune so daunted them, as they went like shadowes, not men. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 11 Great numbers of miserable and pitiful ghosts or rather shadowes of men. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Cc3v All were faire knights, and goodly well beseene, But to faire Britomart they all but shadowes beene. 1773 Life N. Frowde 8 I hardly eat or drank, and became a perfect Shadow. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. ii. 34 He withered..into the shadow of himself. 1840 C. Dickens Let. ?7 Apr. (1969) II. 51 Commend me to him though he does wear me to a shadow. 1847 C. M. Yonge Scenes & Characters xviii. 236 And poor Lily wearing herself to a shadow, in vain attempts to mend matters. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 176 A stranger, by want to a shadow worn. 1977 Grimsby Evening Tel. 14 May 1/6 He was wearing himself to a shadow touring the country and Holland and Sweden trying to get new contracts. < as lemmas |
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