| 释义 |
gravel-blind, a.
Orig. high-gravel-blind, in Shakes. a jocular intensive synonym for sand-blind. Hence used by later writers for ‘nearly stone-blind’. Also fig.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ii. 38 This is my true begotten Father, who being more than sand-blinde, high grauel-blinde, knows me not. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxi, One old woman, who, being nearly ‘high-gravel blind’, was only conscious that something very fine and glittering was passing by. 1841Prescott in Ticknor Life (1864) 95 note, Pity that his love for the ancients made him high gravel-blind to the merits of the moderns. 1845Hood Tim Turpin 1 Tim Turpin he was gravel blind. 1887E. Gilliat Forest Outlaws 240 There be a power of signs to tell us what's coming, if we were not gravel-blind. |