| 单词 | a bad quarter of an hour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa bad (etc.) quarter of an hour P2. a bad (etc.) quarter of an hour [after French un mauvais quart d'heure : see mauvais quart d'heure n.] : a short but very unpleasant period of time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of certain character, condition, or events > bad or unpleasant period a bad (etc.) quarter of an hour1766 the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant period of time time1647 a bad (etc.) quarter of an hour1766 mauvais quart d'heure1864 annus horribilis1867 1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 110 Rablais's Quarter of an Hour, that is, when the Reckoning is to be paid.] 1766 tr. P. de Marivaux Agreeable Surprise in Poet. Blossoms 117 'Twill prove a bad quarter of an hour. 1799 C. Ludger tr. A. von Kotzebue Reconciliation iv. iv. 91 Courage Charlotte, a bad quarter of an hour has no more than fifteen minutes! 1875 A. Trollope Way we live Now II. lxii. 70 He was prepared..to console himself when the bad quarter of an hour should come with the remembrance that he had garnered up a store. 1887 J. Ball Notes Naturalist in S. Amer. 338 When I reached the station..I had an unpleasant quarter of an hour. 1909 Daily Chron. 30 Aug. 4/7 The ‘bad quarter of an hour’ we all know was first given a name by the heartless Louis XIII., who, looking at his watch on the day of the execution of Cinq-Mars, supposed that the poor young fellow ‘passait alors un mauvais quart d'heure’. 1922 C. Mackenzie Altar Steps xxi. 233 Mark fancied that it would be the prelate who would have the unpleasant quarter of an hour. 1999 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 7 Oct. c11 The women in the audience began to snarl and shriek, and Nation publisher Victor Navasky had a bad quarter-hour, as the French say, calming things down. < as lemmas |
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