| 单词 | flat as a cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) flat as a cake ΚΠ a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1932) III. l. 18401 (MED) Stylle he lay, as plat a kake. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 222v His noose as flatte as a cake bruised or beaten to his face. 1643 H. Lovel Horrid & Strange News Ireland 5 I thrust my hand at his throat, but he avoided most nimbly under my hand, and clapped himselfe flat to the wall, as flat as a cake. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. ix. 46 It [sc. a tumour]..lies round and flat as a Cake under the Jaws. 1814 Examiner 21 Aug. 533/1 An old man..cautioned me not to lean near a machine, by which they were landing horses, or I should get squeezed as flat as a cake. 1918 Life 10 Jan. 78/1 The Terrible Tank Triumphantly drank A bumper of gasoline, And left in his wake, As flat as a cake, The Sinister Submarine. < as lemmas |
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