单词 | cooling card |
释义 | > as lemmascooling card cooling card n. now rare something which cools or lessens a person's passion or enthusiasm.There appears to be no evidence of a literal sense ‘a card played as a deterrent to other players’, but several early quots. suggest its existence. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling > that which causes cooling cardc1564 cooler1592 c1564 J. Jefferes Bugbears iii. i, in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Italian (1911) 112 I beleve for all hys dotage it wylbe a coolyng carde to abate the yoothes courage. 1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 57 in Rocke of Regard Cut throte giues a cooling carde, For monie he will none. 1594 True Trag. Richard III sig. C4 My Lord, lay down a cooling card, this game is gone too far, You haue him fast, now cut him off, for feare of ciuill war. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. v. 40 There all is marr'd: there lies a cooling card . View more context for this quotation 1664 Marquis of Worcester in H. Dircks Life 2nd Marquis Worcester (1865) viii. 137 It would..prove a cooling card to many, whose zeal otherwise would transport them. 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper i. i. 4 Wood. [Aside.] That, besides her self, is a cooling Card. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §60 After this cooling Card, of being turned out, his Lordship soon warmed in the Conduct of his Party. 1941 A. K. Tuell John Sterling vii. 166 The force of scholarly admiration slackened in England, especially..after the cooling card of Sir Cornewall Lewis in 1855. 1993 J. Bate Shakespeare & Ovid i. 35 Lyly did not follow Euphues back..his literary style served not as a cooling card, but as a calling card with which he sought to gain entrance at court. < as lemmas |
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