| 单词 | a snake in the grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa snake in the grass b. Used to denote some lurking danger, suspicious circumstance or person, etc.; esp. in the phrase a snake in the grass (after Virgil Ecl. iii. 93 Latet anguis in herba). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > instance or cause of > hidden pitfallc1390 wevet1499 a pad in the straw1530 shelf1560 trapfall1596 snake1611 trapdoor1648 mantrap1798 death-trap1828 nigger in the woodpile1852 —— in the woodpile1857 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > lurking, skulking > [noun] > hidden danger snake1611 1611 W. Barksted Hiren sig. C6 O could this diuell my soule so transforme, That I must eate that snake in him did lurke. 1659 Haslerig in T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 337 Consider what a snake lies under this fair Declaration. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 101 Hold, hold, you drive too fast; there is a snake in the Bush. 1696 C. Leslie (title) The snake in the grass; or, Satan. 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 173 There is a Snake in the grasse, and the designe is mischievous. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Sneck-i'-the-gress, a sneak; a traitor; a treacherous deceiver. 1907 E. Gosse Father & Son xi. 281 He did not scruple to remind the Deity of various objections to a life of pleasure and of the snakes that lie hidden in the grass of evening parties. 1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xiv. 271 We were playing in Dallas, when that snake in the grass..came up on my blind side. < as lemmas |
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