| 单词 | lighter than air |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslighter than air b. (as) light as air, lighter than air, etc.: designating people or things of very little weight. Frequently (and in earliest use) figurative. Also as a modifier (usually with hyphens, in light-as-air). See also lighter-than-air adj. ΚΠ 1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. Cv Thus can I lift my loue as light as ayre. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 326 Trifles light as ayre. 1662 Duchess of Newcastle Wits Cabal i. ii. xv in Playes Written 262 They [sc. women] are lighter than Air, more changing than the Moon. 1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia xxxxviii. 204 A hot sunny Day, Vapours lighter than Air, were to rise from the Ocean. 1837 M. W. Shelley Falkner II. x. 193 By this desperate act, I believed that I had severed the cords that bound me to the vilest servitude. I..felt light as air, and free as a bird. 1969 House & Garden Feb. 15/2 (advt.) A Slumberdown is a continental down-filled, light-as-air, toasty-warm quilt. 2021 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 11 July (Escape section) 16 Sesame-sprinkled flatbread crisp on the edges, but light as air. < as lemmas |
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