单词 | father time |
释义 | > as lemmas(Old) Father Time b. Frequently with capital initial. The personification of this. Also called (Old) Father Time.Conventionally represented as an aged man carrying a scythe and frequently an hourglass; sometimes also as bald except for a single lock of hair (see also to take Time by the forelock at Phrases 6g; but cf. occasion n.1 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > personified time?a1439 scytheman1817 scyther1901 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. l. 1437 Tyme [MS Tymes] with his rasour hath..Shauen a-wey the honour and the glory Off many a noble. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1555) xliv. C iv Sodainly came Time in breuiacion Whose similitude, I shall anone expresse Aged he was, with a bearde doubtles Of swalowes feaders. 1559 Passage Quene Elyzabeth (new ed.) sig. D.i This olde man with the sythe, olde father tyme they call. 1597 N. Ling Politeuphuia: Wits Common Wealth f. 219 Time is so swift of foote, that beeing once past, he can neuer be ouer-taken. The fore-locks of time are the deciders of many doubts. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 139 Time hath (my Lord) a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts almes for obliuion. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 71 The plaine bald pate of Father time himselfe. View more context for this quotation 1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida iii. i. 25 He's an old wooden top, set up by father Time three hundred years ago. 1683 W. Soames tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Art of Poetry iii. 42 To paint old Ianus with his front of Brass, And take from Time his Scythe, his Wings and Glass. 1720 J. Dart tr. Tibullus Wks. viii. 51 Improve the Hours of every happy Day, For nimble Time walks unobserv'd away. 1747 W. King Toast iv. 164 If the Women are Bald, or their Tresses are Grey; Father Time, and the Fates are in Fault—and not they. 1820 W. Irving Westm. Abbey in Sketch Bk. vii. 26 Time is ever silently turning over his pages. 1883 O. W. Holmes Loving-cup Song 29 Old Time his rusty scythe may whet. 1904 Collier's 7 May 20/2 One is almost sorry for old Father Time..and yet there were many years when his scythe was a most formidable weapon. 1982 P. Dickinson Last House-party (1983) ii. 18 Time emerged..no friendly old gaffer with a scythe, but close kin to the skeleton reaper of the Totentanz. 1996 R. Gosden Cheating Time iii. 69 Just as we have reached the so-called prime of life..we catch a glimpse of Old Father Time waiting in the wings. < as lemmas |
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