英语词汇“delilah's lap”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

the lap of Delilah, Delilah's lap, and variants: a situation or lifestyle devoted to pleasurable or worldly things; (also) a situation or position in which a person or thing is vulnerable to temptation or destruction. Often as part of an extended metaphor.Cf. quot. 1597 at main sense.

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1609 G. Benson Serm. 7 May 55 Lift vp your head from Dalilaes lappe: O let the world charme you no longer.

1643 N. Lockyer Baulme for Bleeding Eng. & Ireland 384 In the lap of Delilah, fancy workes goldenly: men devoted to please themselves, fancy befooles them.

1692 W. Fleetwood tr. P. Jurieu Plain Method Christian Devotion (ed. 22) iii. vii. 345 Thou willest, O my God, my Tempters should be always near me, and the Philistins still upon me, that I may wake, and sleep no longer, or rather not at all, upon the knees of Dalila.

1838 Ann. Rep. Vermont Temperance Soc. 1837 17 Let precept and example join hands, and we shall have prepared a lap of Delilah into which the head of the Samson of strong drink may be laid, and there shorn of its locks.

1946 Chester (Pa.) Times 9 Nov. 5/7 The worldly church rises out of the lap of Delilah to shake itself.

2016 Victoria Advocate (Texas) (Nexis) 6 May I believe America is asleep on Delilah's lap, and the hair is being cut.

单词	delilah's lap
释义	> as lemmas Delilah's lap the lap of Delilah, Delilah's lap, and variants: a situation or lifestyle devoted to pleasurable or worldly things; (also) a situation or position in which a person or thing is vulnerable to temptation or destruction. Often as part of an extended metaphor.Cf. quot. 1597 at main sense. ΚΠ 1609 G. Benson Serm. 7 May 55 Lift vp your head from Dalilaes lappe: O let the world charme you no longer. 1643 N. Lockyer Baulme for Bleeding Eng. & Ireland 384 In the lap of Delilah, fancy workes goldenly: men devoted to please themselves, fancy befooles them. 1692 W. Fleetwood tr. P. Jurieu Plain Method Christian Devotion (ed. 22) iii. vii. 345 Thou willest, O my God, my Tempters should be always near me, and the Philistins still upon me, that I may wake, and sleep no longer, or rather not at all, upon the knees of Dalila. 1838 Ann. Rep. Vermont Temperance Soc. 1837 17 Let precept and example join hands, and we shall have prepared a lap of Delilah into which the head of the Samson of strong drink may be laid, and there shorn of its locks. 1946 Chester (Pa.) Times 9 Nov. 5/7 The worldly church rises out of the lap of Delilah to shake itself. 2016 Victoria Advocate (Texas) (Nexis) 6 May I believe America is asleep on Delilah's lap, and the hair is being cut. extracted from Delilahn. < as lemmas
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