单词 | nest of vipers |
释义 | > as lemmasnest of vipers b. A number or collection of people, esp. of the same type or class, or inhabiting or frequenting the same place. Frequently in nest of vipers (see viper n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] > pack packa1393 kennela1586 nest1589 cry1604 canaille1688 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. Cij It was one of your neast, that writt this for a loue letter. 1644 (title) A nest of perfidious vipers. 1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 95 Asham'd that our world now can show Nests of new Seraphims here below. 1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 531 This week a whole nest of clippers were discovered by one Smith in hopes to gett a pardon. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) xx. 101 Should I call the whole university of Oxford a nest of fools. 1778 King George III in T. Hutchinson Diary II. 217 They [sc. the Americans] are a sad nest. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xii. 307 The flitches of bacon and measures of corn, out of which they wheedled poor serfs and bondsmen, in exchange for their prayers—the nest of foul ungrateful vipers. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 94 A little nest of Covenanting refugee clergy. 1874 Thistleton's Illustr. Jolly Giant 26 Sept. III. 152/2 The Police..had become a regular nest of Ancient Order of Hibernians. 1967 N. Lucas CID xi. 161 Alert for any scrap of information that would give a clue to ‘nests’ of Irish extremists. 1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xlv. 494 Any loss or damage would be favourably viewed, since it would have occurred in the course of smoking out a nest of vipers in the heart of His Majesty's Province. < as lemmas |
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