单词 | god send you a good deliverance |
释义 | > as lemmasGod send you (also thee) a good deliverance God send you (also thee) a good deliverance: said by the clerk of a court in response to a prisoner on trial pleading not guilty, perhaps to wish him or her a fair trial or a speedy release; cf. senses 1c and 3c. ΚΠ 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 21 Th. Harrison. I do offer my self to be Tried in your own way, by God, and my Countrey. Clerk. God send you a good Deliverance. 1781 Polit. Mag. & Parl., Naval, Mil. & Lit. Jrnl. Jan. 45/1 Clerk—‘How will you be tried?’ Ld. G. Gordon—‘By God and my country.’ Clerk— ‘God send you a good deliverance.’ 1958 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 2 335 If he says, ‘Not guilty,’ then the Clerk must say, ‘Culprit, how will you be tried?’ And if he says ‘By God and the Country,’ then the Clerk must say, ‘God send you a good deliverance.’ < as lemmas |
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