| 单词 | dry as a witch's teat |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) dry as a witch's teat colloquial. In various similative phrases indicating extreme coldness, dryness, or another property held to be characteristic of such a mark or protuberance, or (more generally) of a witch's breast, such as (as) cold as a witch's teat, (as) dry as a witch's teat. In later use also colder (also drier, etc.) than a witch's teat in the same sense.Perhaps sometimes showing euphemistic alteration of similar expressions at witch's tit n. Phrases. ΚΠ 1939 T. Thayer Three Musketeers xv. 437 Rosy says du Plessis was sore as a witch's teat when they found the Count dead in your room. 1945 M. Whipple This is Place: Utah iii. 177 It [sc. Utah] is a land that has even its own language... The weather is ‘colder than a witch's teat’. 1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye 4 It was cold as a witch's teat, especially on top of that stupid hill. 2004 Canberra Times (Nexis) 11 Feb. Basically..Mars has been dry as a witch's teat for about a billion years. 2014 R. Madeley Way you look Tonight lx. 277 He..put the keys in the ignition... The battery was flatter than a witch's teat. 2018 V. L. Smith Life of Exper. Econ. I. iv. 53 Upstairs were two bedrooms with no heat, and believe me they were as cold as a witch's teat. < as lemmas |
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