| 单词 | watch over the cradle |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswatch over the cradle 2. In various phrases, taken as the symbol of infancy or of the first period or stage of existence; e.g. from the (first, or very) cradle, to stifle in the cradle, watch over the cradle, etc. attributive phrase cradle-to-grave. (cf. quot. 1709.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > babyhood or infancy milkeOE barnagec1400 infancec1400 infancya1513 babeship1542 babehood1548 cradle1555 cradle-hood1599 baby agea1617 biggin1616 babyship1617 dentity1638 babyhood1748 babyism1798 paphood1837 babydom1853 infanthood1862 infantage1866 tottledom1889 toddlerhood1917 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iv. f. 110 Wherwith the stomakes of owr people..haue euer byn noorisshed euen from their cradelles. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 187 To keepe a countenaunce farre aboue the common, euen from the first cradle. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 10 In the Latine wee haue been exercised almost from our verie cradle. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xxxi. 159 Now this infamous treason was known..but all the difficulty was, how to stifle it in the Cradle. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 52. ⁋4 A modest Fellow never has a Doubt from his Cradle to his Grave. 1795 E. Burke Corr. IV. 309 To watch over the cradle of those seminaries. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 12 That the Norman gentlemen were orators from the cradle. 1884 D. Hunter tr. E. Reuss Hist. Canon iv. 61 Churches whose origin goes back to the cradle of Christianity. 1943 Time 22 Mar. 13 Sir William Beveridge, author of the British ‘cradle-to-grave’ social security report. 1951 Amer. Speech 26 39 He shifts easily from such levels as cant to slang or colloquialism... While such cradle-to-grave lexicography must be impressive to the uninitiate, it may also reflect an assurance born largely of scissors and paste. 1962 C. Walsh From Utopia to Nightmare vi. 76 Everyone has cradle-to-grave security. < as lemmas |
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