单词 | like an angel |
释义 | > as lemmaslike (also as) an angel a. like (also as) an angel: with the skill or other quality attributed angels; very beautifully or skilfully; sublimely well.Originally and frequently with reference to speech or singing. [Compare French comme un ange (17th cent.).] ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 1671 (MED) Sche harpeth many a lay And lich an Angel sang withal. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 197 As an Aungel heuenysshly she soong. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 61 There's not the smallest orbe which thou beholdst but in his motion like an Angell sings, still quiring to the young eyde Cherubins. View more context for this quotation 1726 D. Defoe Hist. Devil. vii. 310 She talk'd like an Angel, sung like a Syren. 1880 Era 23 May He..plays the fiddle and other instruments ‘like an angel’. 1934 P. Hemingway Let. 17 May in G. Murphy et al. Lett. from Lost Generation (1991) 85 It seems he can cook like an angel. 2016 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 6 May 10 Lucy Green is the perfect Dorothy—kind and pure of heart, who happens to dance like an angel. < as lemmas |
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