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单词 diable au corps
释义 diable au corps|djɑbl o kɔr|
[Fr., lit. ‘devil in the body’.]
= devil n. 6 b; restless or inexhaustible energy; devilment.
1895G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) I. 197 Miss Lottie Collins..has still her Tarararesque diable au corps.1916G. Saintsbury Peace of Augustans vii. 276 But in diable au corps—that quality which Voltaire declared to be necessary in everything—Congreve and Sheridan are nearer to each other.1959Manchester Guardian 24 July 4/5 Skiffle has a diable au corps, which is denied to some profounder forms of art.
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