单词 | war of words |
释义 | > as lemmaswar of words b. transferred and figurative. A contest, struggle (between living beings or opposing forces). Cf. 1b. Also war of nerves: see nerve n. Phrases 5; war of words (Journalese), a sustained conflict conducted by means of the spoken or printed word; a propaganda war. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrel in printed or spoken words book-war1610 book quarrel1627 war of words1981 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3458 O suilk a wer was neuer herd, Ne suilk a strijf o childir tuin. c1400 Anturs of Arth. iii Thayre werre on the wild squyne wurchis hom wo. 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. ii. 160 I thinke there be neuer an Ale-house in England..but sets forth some poets petternels or demilances to the paper warres in Paules Church-yard. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 213 Our veyl'd Dames Commit the Warre of White and Damaske In their nicely gawded Cheekes, toth' wanton spoyle Of Phœbus burning Kisses. 1620 J. Taylor Jack a Lent A 4 Blacke Iacks..Whose liquor oftentimes breedes houshold wars. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 108 I pass the Wars the spotted Linx's make With their fierce Rivals, for the Females sake. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 78. ⁋5 What a learned War will there be among future Criticks about the Original of that Club. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 423 My Prophets, and my Sophists finish'd here Their Civil Efforts of the Verbal War. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 96 O insolence of youth! whose tongue affords Such railing eloquence, and war of words. 1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket ii. 16 Scarce any Youth wou'd dare At single Wicket, try the doubtful War. 1821 Ld. Byron Cain iii. i, in Sardanapalus 416 For what should I be gentle? for a war With all the elements ere they will yield The bread we eat? 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xxii. 295 That deadly war, which, to the disgrace of mathematical science, has raged for three years between the geometers of Britain and Germany. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 108 The war between the white man and the forest was still fierce. 1885 Manch. Examiner 16 May 5/1 There is already a talk of..a war of tariffs being declared. 1981 Times 10 Oct. 1/7 As the war of words continued in the Tory party Mrs Thatcher arrived back from the Commonwealth Conference. 1984 Guardian 8 Mar. 9/1 (heading) Vietnamese intensify war of words on Peking. < as lemmas |
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