| 单词 | nessus shirt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNessus shirt Used allusively in compounds and phrases (as Nessus-robe, Nessus shirt; Nessus' shirt, shirt of Nessus), to denote any destructive or expiatory force or influence. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful influence venomc1315 venomc1380 enmitya1387 blast1547 arsenic1583 aconite1606 Nessus shirta1616 bane-touch1647 blighta1661 poison tree1794 upas1801 a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xiii. 43 The shirt of Nessus is vpon me. View more context for this quotation 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding v. iv, in Comedies & Trag. 153 Take it; would 'twere Nessus his shirt, for you and your Poets sake. 1792 R. Cumberland Calvary iv. 133 Who will unbrace This scalding mail, that burns my tortur'd breast Worse than the shirt of Nessus? 1835 T. Carlyle Lett. to his Wife (1953) 108 It is now almost my sole rule of life: to clear myself of Cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus' shirts. 1892 F. Praeger Wagner as I knew Him x. 157 Relinquishing the last remnants of class distinction which, at any moment, might become a Nessus shirt, consuming them [sc. the aristocracy]. 1905 S. J. Weyman Starvecrow Farm xxxii. 297 Remorse is the very shirt of Nessus. It is of all mental pains the worst. 1924 R. Graves Mock Beggar Hall 10 The Nessus-robe that beauties wear, Burning away their beauty. 1957 E. Sitwell Coll. Poems 414 Then the heart that was the Burning-Bush May change to a Nessus-robe of flame. 1980 P. O'Brian Surgeon's Mate vi. 177 A Nessus' shirt might be more apt. < as lemmas |
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