| 单词 | it is merry in hall when beards wag all |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit is merry in hall when beards wag all a. it is merry in hall when beards wag all. ΚΠ c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 1163 Mery swiþe it is in halle, Whan þat burdes waweþ alle. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Iiiiv It is mery in halle, when berds wag all. 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 58 For it is merry in Hall, where beards wagge all, according to that olde right English Prouerbe of our Ancestours. 1693 H. Higden Wary Widdow iv. 41 'Tis merry in the Hall, when Beards wag all. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 170 They say, 'tis merry in Hall, when Beards wag all. 1842 L. Hunt Palfrey v. 75 By heavens! 'twas ‘merry in the hall’, When every beard, but those, ‘wagg'd all’. 1976 ‘J. Davey’ Treasury Alarm i. 9 Presumably this is how the Treasury greybeards get their fun. Are they in fact greybearded? One rather assumes a great wagging of beards: 'tis merry in hall when beards wag all. < as lemmas |
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