| 单词 | on the greek calends |
| 释义 | > as lemmason (at) the Greek Calends b. on (at) the Greek Calends (Latin ad Græcas kalendas): humorous for Never; since the Greeks used no calends in their reckoning of time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > never neverOE ne'erc1275 late?a1439 naya1547 Latter Lammas1559 when the devil is blind1645 on (at) the Greek Calendsa1649 Queen Dick1652 tomorrow come never1660 nowhena1767 on Tib's Eve1785 a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 185 That Gold, Plate, and all Silver given to the Mint-House in these late Troubles, shall be paid at the Greek Kalends. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) At the Greek Calends, never; for the Greks have no Calends. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table i. 18 His friends looked for it only on the Greek Calends, say on the 31st of April, when that should come round, if you would modernize the phrase. 1882 Macmillan's Mag. 46 253 So we go on..and the works are sent to the Greek Calends. < as lemmas |
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