单词 | judas kiss |
释义 | > as lemmasJudas kiss Judas kiss n. a kiss or other apparent gesture of friendship which is in fact an act of betrayal (originally with allusion to the kiss with which Judas Iscariot identified Jesus to the armed crowd who arrested him, as recounted in Matthew 26:48). [Compare Anglo-Norman besir Judas (end of the 13th cent. or earlier), Middle French baisier de Judas, Middle French, French baiser de Judas (c1380).] ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 145 Forhit is iudase cos þet ha wið cusseð.] c1450 (a1400) R. Lavynham Treat. Seven Deadly Sins (Harl. 211) (1956) 11 Hate of herte is whan a man spekyth litil & menyth moche malyce..& at þe laste wt a iudas kesse schewith a loue y fayned. c1590 Robin Conscience 134 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 235 That yov haue giuen him many a Jvdas kisse. 1641 J. Bond Englands Reioycing for Parliaments Returne 7 From you this Iland doe receive a blisse From you, a blessing, not a Iudas kisse. 1765 C. Jemmat Mem. (ed. 2) II. 48 I might as well seem to believe him as not, for I had no remedy, so after forcing on me a few Judas kisses we went to bed. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss III. vi. i. 15 A woman who was loving and thoughtful for other women, not giving them Judas-kisses with eyes askance. 1920 P. Cook Humbug-land xiv. 22 All his pretended kindness towards animals is a Judas-kiss. 1942 ‘G. Orwell’ Diary 28 Sept. in Coll. Ess. (1968) II. 449 A special prayer ‘for the people of Stalingrad’—the Judas kiss. 1973 ‘R. Lewis’ Blood Money ix. 146 Candour shone from his eyes, as insincere as a Judas kiss. 2002 Irish Times (Nexis) 22 Feb. 14 [He] implored the public not to accept what he called the Minister's ‘Judas kiss’. < as lemmas |
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