英语词汇“to weep with an onion”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. Phrases. †to weep Irish: to weep unfeelingly, as a professional mourner weeps at an Irish wake. to weep with (or over) an onion: figurative to weep with feigned grief.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > grieve insincerely [verb (intransitive)]

to weep Irish1577

to weep with (or over) an onion1577

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1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande viii. f. 28/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I They follow the dead corpes to the graue with howlyng and barbarous outcries, pitiful in apparaunce, wherof grew, as I suppose, the prouerbe, to weepe Irish [L. Hibernice lacrimari].

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet D iv b Ile make thee to forget Bishops English, and weep Irish.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xii. 247 Surely the Egyptians did not weep-Irish with faigned and mercenary teares.

1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1305 To weep Irish, or to feign sorrow.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 322 Mine eyes smell Onions, I shall weepe anon. ] 1616 Withals' Dict. 557 Flere ad nouercæ tumulum, to weepe with an Onion.1882 T. G. Bowles Flotsam & Jetsam 144 Here again is..the Vicomte weeping ruefully over the strongest onion that ever man sliced.

单词	to weep with an onion
释义	> as lemmas to weep with (or over) an onion 2. Phrases. †to weep Irish: to weep unfeelingly, as a professional mourner weeps at an Irish wake. to weep with (or over) an onion: figurative to weep with feigned grief. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > grieve insincerely [verb (intransitive)] to weep Irish1577 to weep with (or over) an onion1577 snivel1691 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande viii. f. 28/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I They follow the dead corpes to the graue with howlyng and barbarous outcries, pitiful in apparaunce, wherof grew, as I suppose, the prouerbe, to weepe Irish [L. Hibernice lacrimari]. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet D iv b Ile make thee to forget Bishops English, and weep Irish. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xii. 247 Surely the Egyptians did not weep-Irish with faigned and mercenary teares. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1305 To weep Irish, or to feign sorrow. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 322 Mine eyes smell Onions, I shall weepe anon. View more context for this quotation] 1616 Withals' Dict. 557 Flere ad nouercæ tumulum, to weepe with an Onion.1882 T. G. Bowles Flotsam & Jetsam 144 Here again is..the Vicomte weeping ruefully over the strongest onion that ever man sliced. extracted from weepv. < as lemmas
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