| 单词 | as meek as moses |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas meek as Moses 5. Proverbial phrases (chiefly in senses A. 1 and A. 2), as as meek as a lamb (also a maid, etc.), as meek as Moses, etc. ΚΠ c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) 260 He þat was woned to be Meke as a lomb, ful of pite. c1390 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale 3202 He was..lyk a mayden meke for to see. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 1243 In tym off pes mek as a maid was he. a1617 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1827) 25 He was humble, gentill and meak lyk a lamb in the house. 1743 R. Blair Grave 28 The shrill-tongu'd Shrew, Meek as the Turtle-Dove, forgets her Chiding. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. xii. 232 Mr Glegg,..though a kind man..was not as meek as Moses. 1906 W. Woods Billy the Kid in America's Lost Plays (1940) VIII. 217 I went into Pete's place as meek as a kitten. 1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iv. iii. 151 I ran into him upstreet this afternoon and he was meek as pie. 1985 W. Horwood Callanish 71 He made himself as meek as a lamb, hoping perhaps that they would give him an extra morsel of food. < as lemmas |
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