单词 | green with envy |
释义 | > as lemmasgreen with envy (also jealousy) P8. green with envy (also jealousy): extremely envious. ΚΠ 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xliii The doctor was turning almost green with jealousy. 1881 Daily Tel. 5 July 2/2 Superbly modelled craft, whose lines would have made the old Baltimore clipper-builders green with envy. 1935 News (Frederick, Maryland) 30 Aug. 4/2 My new bucket hat has made her green with envy. 1948 Billboard 7 Feb. 45/1 Milton Berle's $15,000 for four days at the Miami Copa..is making other acts green with jealousy. 1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) v. 180 His sermons were great... I was as green as the tree in the manse garden with envy. 2006 G. Malkani Londonstani i. 3 An eloquence..that made me green with envy. < as lemmas |
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