| 单词 | as old as methuselah |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas old as Methuselah a. as old as Methuselah: (that is) extremely aged or ancient. ΚΠ c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 447 Ȝif a Mon may libben heer As longe as dude Matussale.] 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) sig. Hii Also olde as euer was matheusale. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote iii. 19 I shall neuer gouerne, though I come to be as old as Methusalem. 1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i. at Sarra Viéjo cómo Sárra, As old as Sarrah. We say, As old as Mathusalem, or as old as S. Paul. 1766 G. S. Carey Cottagers iii. ii, in Flights of Fancy 74 May you live to be as old as Mathusalem, I say. 1845 C. Dickens Chimes i. 41 A man may live to be as old as Methuselah. 1872 Proc. National Union Republican Conv. 30 I tell you, gentlemen, that were I to live to be as old as Methuselah, I could never atone for this crime. 1931 J. D. Beresford Innocent Criminal i. 5 A woman..at least as old as Methuselah. 1998 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 15 May b6 These Puritans know that adultery is a mischievous activity as old as Methuselah. < as lemmas |
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