| 单词 | free as a bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree as a bird P1. In similative phrases suggesting freedom from constraint in movement or action, as (as) free as (the) air, free as the wind, free as a bird, etc. ΚΠ 1603 T. Powell Vertues Due l. 153 As free as featherd Faulcons in the ayre. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 502 Thou shalt be as free As mountaine windes. View more context for this quotation 1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 166 As free as bird in ayre. 1682 M. Coppinger Poems 72 Disdaining those Bonds that the Predicants wear, My Soul is a Monarch as free as the Air. 1712 S. Cobb Callipædia ii. 15 Free as the Wind the Steeds of War unrein. 1776 H. H. Brackenridge Battle of Bunkers-Hill v. ii. 25 The judgment whether as base slaves, We serve these masters, or more nobly live, Free as the breeze. c1818 Sir R. Peel in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers (1884) I. iv. 116 A fortnight hence I shall be free as air. 1837 M. W. Shelley Falkner II. x. 193 By this desperate act, I believed that I had severed the cords that bound me to the vilest servitude. I..felt light as air, and free as a bird. 1901 Times 16 Jan. 10/5 He is as free as air now. 1973 J. Ludwig Woman her Age i. 52 You ain't with grandchildren and greatgrands to tie you down. We're free like birds. 2005 N.Y. Times 13 Mar. viii. 1/1 The newest icon in the sport of Alpine skiing grew up free as a bird. < as lemmas |
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