| 单词 | from the sublime to the ridiculous |
| 释义 | from the sublime to the ridiculousFrom the beautiful to the silly, from great to puny. For example, They played first Bach and then an ad jingle—from the sublime to the ridiculous. The reverse, from the ridiculous to the sublime, is used with the opposite meaning. Coined by Tom Paine in The Age of Reason (1794), in which he said the two are so closely related that it is but one step from one to the other, the phrase has been often repeated in either order. Words nearby from the sublime to the ridiculousfrom the bottom of one's heart, from the cradle to the grave, from the ground up, from the horse's mouth, from the outset, from the sublime to the ridiculous, From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step, from the word go, from this day forward, from time to time, from way back The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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