| 单词 | honour bright |
| 释义 | > as lemmashonour bright P9. colloquial. honour bright: used as an expression of, or interrogatively as an appeal to, one's honour or sincerity. Cf. honest Injun n. at honest adj. and adv. Compounds 3. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > with reference to one's word or honour by (formerly also for, on, upon) my trothc1225 aplight1297 on (also upon) one's honourc1475 upon my word1591 honour bright1778 1778 C. Dibdin Poor Vulcan i. ii. 24 Maud. Serjeant, d'ye love me? Pike.—Honour bright! 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress 36 At morning meet, and—honour bright,—Agree to share the blunt and tatters. 1852 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. 293 Is it not so, honour bright? 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits vii. 121 The phrase of the lowest of the people is ‘honor-bright,’ and their vulgar praise, ‘his word is as good as his bond’. 1915 St. Nicholas June 682/1 I'll give you the first wish. Yes, anything you say, and honor bright. 1993 Grain Spring 61 ‘I'll never do it again, Mommy,’ he'd say after she told him. ‘Honour bright, I won't.’ < as lemmas |
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