英语词汇“as the skin between one's brows”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†P9. as the skin between one's brows and variants: (used adverbially as an intensifier of an adjective) completely, utterly, absolutely. Obsolete.Chiefly in as honest as the skin between one's brows, in later use usually with allusion to Shakespeare (see quot. 1600¹).

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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely > specific emphasizing a quality

as the skin between one's brows1575

as clean, clear, dry as a whistle1786

1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle v. ii. sig. Ei^v I am as true, I wold thou knew, as skin bet wene thy browes.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. v. 12 An old man sir, and his wittes are not so blunt, as God helpe I would desire they were, but infaith honest, as the skin between his browes .

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. Eiv Punt. Is he magnanimous? Gent. As the skin betweene your browes sir.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iv. v. 64 in Wks. II Tou [sic] shalt be as honesht as the skinne betweene his hornsh.

a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) v. iv. 83 I am as honest as the skin that is Between thy Brows?

1737 J. Miller Universal Passion iv. ii. 51 He's an old Man, Sir, and his Wits are not quite so ready as 'twere to be wish'd; but in troth he's as honest as the Skin between his Brows.

1783 G. Colman tr. Horace Art Poetry 32 As honest as the skin between his brows!

1861 D. Costello Holidays with Hobgoblins 95 He was good-natured to a fault, and honest as the skin between his brows.

单词	as the skin between one's brows
释义	> as lemmas as the skin between one's brows †P9. as the skin between one's brows and variants: (used adverbially as an intensifier of an adjective) completely, utterly, absolutely. Obsolete.Chiefly in as honest as the skin between one's brows, in later use usually with allusion to Shakespeare (see quot. 1600¹). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely > specific emphasizing a quality as the skin between one's brows1575 as clean, clear, dry as a whistle1786 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle v. ii. sig. Ei^v I am as true, I wold thou knew, as skin bet wene thy browes. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. v. 12 An old man sir, and his wittes are not so blunt, as God helpe I would desire they were, but infaith honest, as the skin between his browes . View more context for this quotation 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. Eiv Punt. Is he magnanimous? Gent. As the skin betweene your browes sir. View more context for this quotation 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iv. v. 64 in Wks. II Tou [sic] shalt be as honesht as the skinne betweene his hornsh. a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) v. iv. 83 I am as honest as the skin that is Between thy Brows? 1737 J. Miller Universal Passion iv. ii. 51 He's an old Man, Sir, and his Wits are not quite so ready as 'twere to be wish'd; but in troth he's as honest as the Skin between his Brows. 1783 G. Colman tr. Horace Art Poetry 32 As honest as the skin between his brows! 1861 D. Costello Holidays with Hobgoblins 95 He was good-natured to a fault, and honest as the skin between his brows. extracted from skinn. < as lemmas
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