单词 | little boy lost |
释义 | > as lemmaslittle boy lost little boy lost: (the type of) a small boy who has lost his way.Originally, and still frequently, in titles. ΚΠ 1789 W. Blake Songs of Innocence (title of poem) The little boy lost. 1838 Pennsylvania Inquirer & Daily Courier 7 Aug. (headline) A little boy lost. 1905 W. H. Hudson (title) A little boy lost. 1949 M. Laski (title) Little boy lost. 1954 A. Wainhouse Hedyphagetica ii. 118 He beheld himself as a mere boy; a little boy lost, a very small, a very vile little chap, lost, unlistened to. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy ix. 235 An appearance compounded of the metallically-cynical and the little-boy-lost. 1996 M. H. Hunt Lyndon Johnson's War iii. 50 He [sc. John Kennedy] was..slow to mature, remaining in the eyes of his friends something of a little-boy-lost into the 1950s. 2010 P. J. Bridge (title) Little boy lost: Northampton in 1865. < as lemmas |
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