| 单词 | babe in arms |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbabe in arms babe in arms n. a very young child, not yet able to walk; a baby; cf. arm n.1 Phrases 1b. ΚΠ 1731 R. Traill 29 Serm. x. 150 Old dying Simeon calls him [sc. Christ], when a Babe in Arms, God's Salvation. 1796 ‘M. Fitz John’ Joan! III. xix. 273 I have not seed her sin she were a babe in arms. 1821 Cottager's Monthly Visitor Apr. 183 The Princess Amelia, then a babe in arms, made one of the party. 1857 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 19 Sept. 196/2 Woe be to the unlucky female whose babe in arms begins to cry during the prima donna's cadenza, as babes in arms at the opera always do. 1912 J. N. McIlwraith Diana of Quebec vii. 94 She had brought three little children with her, one a babe in arms. 1999 L. Barnes Flashpoint 300 Fashion, I'm told, is ultra-important in the age of mallcrawlers and designer togs for babes in arms. < as lemmas |
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