| 单词 | fire and fury |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire and fury 2. In various exclamatory phrases, as fire and fury, blood and fire, etc., expressing anger, surprise, impatience, etc. Now archaic except in hell-fire int.Recorded earliest in fire and brimstone int. See also flesh and fire! at flesh n. 9d, great balls of fire at ball of fire n. Phrases. ΚΠ 1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. A2 Fire and brimstone, cut it out into matches, the white linings will serue for tinder. 1616 S. S. Honest Lawyer iv. sig. H3 Gone, sayst thou? and with the mony? fire and gun-powder! how are we blowne vp? 1696 P. A. Motteux Loves of Mars & Venus i. 8 'S Blood and Fire, who am I? 1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man iii. 25 Fire! and Furies! I am tutor'd here like a meer School Boy! 1779 F. Pilon Liverpool Prize i. 15 'Sblood and fire, Sir! If I thought you would ever breathe an accent which might cast a shadow of reproach on this adorable and virtuous creature's character,..I'd sacrifice you this moment. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge l. 226 Fire and fury, master!.. What have we done, that you should talk to us like this! 1998 R. Jordan Path of Daggers xxiv. 473 Blood and fire, I only listened to Colavaere, but I have known I was a dead man since he killed her. < as lemmas |
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