| 单词 | everlasting bonfire |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseverlasting (also eternal) bonfire P1. everlasting (also eternal) bonfire: (usually with the) hell, damnation.Later use is probably in allusion to or influenced by Shakespeare's use in quot. a1616. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 18 Some of all Professions, that goe the Primrose way to th'euerlasting Bonfire. a1839 ‘Q in the Corner’ Puseyad (1850) 62 To save our spiritual bacon We must burn daylight, or else wake on The eternal bonfire lit below. 1890 Illustr. Amer. 30 May 52/2 Some of us think the theatre the royal highway to the eternal bonfire. 1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) vi. 140 There is always a creeping suspicion that the everlasting bonfire, the volcano below, has only been damped down, not extinguished. 2011 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Mar. There are so many reasons why many believers think I am on my way to the eternal bonfire that it would be tedious to rehearse them. < as lemmas |
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