| 单词 | child, or man, of sin |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschild, or man, of sin c. In phrases child, or man, of sin; as black, or ugly, as sin. Also like (or worse than) sin: vehemently, intensely, vigorously. Cf. like the devil at devil n. Phrases 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > ugly [phrase] as black, or ugly, as sin1821 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > intensely dark pitchya1522 Cimmerian1598 pitch dark1704 pit-mirk1728 pitchy dark1732 pitch mirk?1795 as black, or ugly, as sin1827 the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy with (also in) mood and maineOE vigour13.. with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330 with (one's) forcec1380 like anything1665 hammer and tongs1708 like stour1787 (in) double tides1788 like blazes1818 like winking1827 with a will1827 like winky1830 like all possessed1833 in a big way1840 like (or worse than) sin1840 full swing1843 like a Trojan1846 like one o'clock1847 like sixty1848 like forty1852 like wildfire1857 like old boots1865 like blue murder1867 like steam1905 like stink1929 like one thing1938 like a demon1945 up a storm1953 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 53 You are three men of sinne. View more context for this quotation 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. x. 246 Though I am as ugly as sin, I would not have you think me an ass. 1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. iv. 60 They..bowed civilly if folk took aff their bannets as they gaed by, and lookit as black as sin at them that keepit them on. 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. viii. 102 Who the plague can live on sugar-candy? I am sure I couldn't. Nothin' does for me like honey; arter a while I get to hate it like sin. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 213 From the palace came a child of sin. 1868 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 8 Jan. (1917) I. 143 I have been working like sin all night to get a lecture written. 1929 W. Scott Mask i. 16 By the way, Father, dear—who is it that Peter Marlin hates worse than sin? < as lemmas |
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