| 单词 | as deaf as an adder or a post |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas deaf as an adder or a post d. Proverbial phrases. as deaf as an adder or a post (formerly and still dialectally as deaf as a door, doorpost, doornail, etc.); none so deaf as those who won't hear. (Deafness is attributed in the Bible, Psalm lviii. 5, to the adder (= pethen the asp); cf. the name deaf-adder in Compounds 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of ear > disordered hearing > [adjective] > deaf deafc825 hearingless1398 deathc1475 as deaf as a door, doorpost, doornail1546 dunch1569 surda1682 nut-deaf1828 stock-deaf1865 soundless1890 stone-eared1895 non-hearing1958 Mutt and Jeff1960 mutt1973 mutton1983 a1400–50 Alexander 4747 Dom as a dore-nayle & defe was he bathe.] 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Kiiiv Who is so deafe,..as hee that wilfully will nothere here nor see. 1551 R. Crowley Pleasure & Payne sig. Aviiv Ye deafe dorepostis coulde ye not heare? 1606 N. Breton Miseries Mavillia in Wks. (1879) 49 He is as deafe as a doore. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sourd comme vn tapis, as deafe as a doore-nayle (say we). 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxiv. 288 He was as deaf as a Door-nail. 1824 J. Bentham Bk. of Fallacies in Wks. (1843) II. 412 None are so completely deaf as those who will not hear. 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet i, in New Monthly Mag. May 121 She was deaf as a post. 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet i, in New Monthly Mag. May 121 She was deaf as a post..And as deaf as twenty similes more, Including the adder, that deafest of snakes. 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet i, in New Monthly Mag. May 121 She was deaf as a nail—that you cannot hammer A meaning into, for all your clamour. < as lemmas |
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