单词 | marmalade and sucket |
释义 | > as lemmasmarmalade and sucket b. figurative and in extended use. Earliest in †marmalade and sucket (see sucket n.). ΚΠ 1592 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 280 Euery Periode of her stile carrieth marmalad and sucket in the mouth. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 53 The marmalade and sucket of the Muses. a1872 E. Atherstone Love, Poetry, Philos., & Gout v. iii, in Dramatic Wks. (1888) 289 Beaten and crushed to a mere marmalade. 1925 J. G. Macleod in Oxf. Poetry 27 He had tasted Too bitterly the marmalade of life. 1949 J. Steinbeck Russ. Jrnl. 179 A passage of clarinet marmalade played in unmistakable Benny Goodman style. 1991 A. Martin Walking on Water (1992) ii. 6 But my secret motive was the compulsion to pit myself against one of the most powerful forces in nature—everything else was just marmalade. < as lemmas |
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