| 单词 | neither man nor mouse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasneither man nor mouse P3. In alliterative association with man. neither man nor mouse: not a living creature (great or small). mouse and man (also mice and men): every living thing. In later use often allusive to Robert Burns (see quot. 1785 at sense 1b).a man or a mouse: see man n.1 ΚΠ 1611 J. Davies Scourge of Folly 57 Flaccus..doth keepe too great an house;..But, he therein keepes neither Man nor Mouse, For, there is meate for neither. 1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving i. v. 14 Looke Præco, canst thou see no audience? Præco. Nor man, nor mouse. 1712 S. Cobb Mouse-Trap 15 So all are serv'd by Fates, who weave the Doom Of Mice and Men upon one common Loom! 1786 R. Burns To Mouse vii, in Poems 140 The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 483 Poor Prince Maurice, sea-roving..sank, in the West Indies, mouse and man. 1875 R. Browning Inn Album i. 17 My mouth's shut, mind! I tell nor man nor mouse. a1882 H. W. Longfellow Poet. Wks. IV. 157 Over her decks the seas will leap, She must go down into the deep, And perish mouse and man. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. ix. 144 Maria..would flatly refuse to brave the elements on such a night; and neither man nor mouse could blame her. 1937 J. Steinbeck (title) Of mice and men. < as lemmas |
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