| 单词 | watery grave |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswatery grave 3. In enlarged rhetorical use: Anything that is, or may become, the receptacle of what is dead. So liquid grave, watery grave. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > anything like or used as grave1559 tomb?1566 morgue1850 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Cade xxi Than were on poales my parboylde quarters pight, And set aloft for vermine to deuower, Meete graue for rebels that resist the power. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 326 Their dead Corpes were cast over Board, in a boundlesse grave to feed the fishes. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 42 Ptolemais (the Grave General of the Christian Army). 1822 Ld. Byron Heaven & Earth i. iii, in Liberal 1 178 Not even a rock from out the liquid grave. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vi. 185 They had only just escaped a watery grave. 1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. vi. 170 He had carried her..out of a grave of fire. 1895 Maguire in United Service Mag. July 373 The country between the Balkans and Constantinople would have been the grave of the entire Russian Army. 1898 J. R. Illingworth Divine Immanence vi. 137 The body ceases to be the spirit's organ, and becomes first its prison, and then its grave. watery grave c. In various fixed phrases denoting the water, or the bottom of a body of water, as the final resting place of a dead person, esp. one who had drowned, as watery grave, watery tomb, etc. Similarly in phrases denoting drowning, as watery death, watery fate, etc. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > place of > of the drowned watery grave1595 watery tomb1595 Davy Jones's (or Davy's) locker1803 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > other means of disposal > [noun] > grave at bottom of sea or water watery grave1595 watery tomb1595 Davy Jones's (or Davy's) locker1803 the world > life > death > manner of death > [noun] > death from drowning drenchingc1380 drowning1539 shipwreck1680 watery death1831 drownage1850 1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile sig. E3v He dips His damned bodie in his watrie tombe. 1606 Most Cruell & Bloody Murther Committed by Annis Dell sig. B2 Hauing forc't the child to be sad (beholding first of her brothers vntimely murther, and now of his watry graue). a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 232 So went he suited to his watery tombe. View more context for this quotation 1707 J. Stevens tr. Justina in Spanish Libertines 2 He Dy'd at Barcelona a Watery Death. 1786 P. M. Freneau Poems 170 Beneath us depths unfathom'd lie.., A wat'ry tomb of ocean-green And only one frail plank between! 1796 R. F. Cheetham Odes & Misc. 54 O save us from a watery fate, If such the gracious will of heav'n. 1829 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. 2nd Ser. I. ix. 265 The horrours and deplorable consequences of a watery grave. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert v, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 114 To exchange..a watery death for one by the more dreadful agency of fire. 1868 E. Gutch Notes Un-natural Hist. i. 8 He..finally drowned himself. Arondo-ienu likewise came to a watery end. 1911 Washington Post 26 Feb. (Miscellany section) 5/1 The body of John Wilkes Booth was not..consigned to a watery grave in the Atlantic Ocean, but it was buried with great secrecy. 1980 Austral. Financial Rev. 11 Jan. 1/1 The tax schemes are jokingly referred to as ‘Bottom of the Harbour Pty Ltd’, by members of the Sydney tax avoidance fraternity, as many of the documents have gone to a watery grave. 1991 J. Whitlark Behind Great Wall vi. 136 Kafka's story concludes with the protagonist..leaping to a watery death at the order of his father. 2009 D. O'Briain Tickling Eng. xvii. 255 You can see the waters churn through the gaps in the boards! A watery grave could be only moments away! < as lemmas |
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