| 单词 | locust years |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslocust years locust years n. [with allusion to Joel 2:25; compare quots. c1384, 1611] years of poverty or hardship. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > time of stoundOE SeptuagesimaOE winterc1425 plague time1549 plague year1549 stour1579 Winter of the Rals1846 locust years1948 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Joel ii. 25 Y shal ȝeelde to you the ȝeris whom the locust eete. 1611 Bible (King James) Joel ii. 25 And I will restore to you the yeeres that the locust hath eaten. View more context for this quotation] 1948 W. S. Churchill Second World War I. i. v. 52 (heading) The Locust Years, 1931–1935. 1962 Listener 19 July 107/3 Sir Winston Churchill applied the phrase, the locust years, to the middle thirties, when vigorous rearmament should have begun. 1970 Times 27 May 8 Yet before these locust years of Labour, we had the Conservative years of rising prosperity. 2002 Daily Tel. 21 Nov. 40/6 Sir Peter Davis, Sainsbury's chief exec, can fairly distance himself from the seven locust years which preceded his return to the group. < as lemmas |
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