| 单词 | happy hunting-ground |
| 释义 | > as lemmashappy hunting-ground(s) happy hunting-ground(s): those expected by the American Indians in the world to come; hence, the future state; (also figurative) a favourable place for hunting, collecting, or making acquisitions. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > future state other worldOE worldOE everlastingnessa1382 futurity1741 other sidea1822 happy hunting-ground(s)1826 Silent Land1826 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans II. xvi. 288 A young man has gone to the happy hunting grounds! 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie II. xii. 192 Court-houses are the ‘happy hunting-grounds’, as a Red-skin would say, for them that are born with gifts no better than such as lie in the tongue. 1836 W. Irving Astoria (1849) 249 They will see the happy hunting-grounds, with the souls of the brave and good living in tents in green meadows. 1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody v That he may send them to the happy hunting grounds also. 1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ i. 6 At the present moment England is the happy hunting-ground of the swindling fraternity. 1938 D. Du Maurier Rebecca ii. 13 My faithful Jasper has gone to the happy hunting grounds. 1972 Nature 17 Mar. 98/1 The effect of liquid sodium on other metals has been a particularly happy hunting ground for chemists. < as lemmas |
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