| 单词 | as hard as brazil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas hard as brazil d. Taken as the type of hardness (whence formerly turned into bowls for bowling): thence the simile as hard as brazil still common dialectally, and sometimes explained as referring to the next word. Pronounced /ˈbræzɪl/, /ˈbræz(ə)l/. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [adjective] > very iron-hardOE bone?a1300 adamantinea1382 stony?1523 adamant1535 steel-harda1560 buff-hard1589 steely1596 diamantine1605 steela1607 rocked1610 Brazil1635 adamantean1671 osseousa1682 iron1708 ferreous1774 rock-likea1793 cast iron1886 bone-hard1924 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. v. 142 Are my Bones Brazzil, or my Flesh of Oake? 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. x. 42 Turne thou my Brazil thoughts anew. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) ‘It's as hard as brazil’. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Brazil, so extremely hard as to have given rise to a common proverbial saying, ‘As hard as brazil’. 1879 Athenæum 19 July 73 ‘As hard as Brazil’, is a common saying over a great part, perhaps the whole, of England. < as lemmas |
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