单词 | poor as job |
释义 | > as lemmas(as) poor as Job (The name of) a patriarch of the land of Uz, the eponymous protagonist of a book of the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, taken as the type of extreme poverty, destitution, etc., or of patience and endurance. Frequently in similative phrases, as (as) patient as Job (also the patience of Job), and (as) poor as Job. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > typical or type of JobOE the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > very poor or destitute (as) poor as JobOE nakedOE voidc1374 naisa1400 vacant1430 (as) drunk, (also mad, poor, rank, weak, etc.) as a rat?1548 Hungarian1608 pauper1690 destitute1735 farthingless1834 pebble-beached1890 piss-poor1945 the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > person sufferantc1374 patientc1400 Job1749 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xix. 188 Gif us ungelimpas, on æhtum getimiað, þonne sceole we niman, geðyld æfter Iobe, se ðe ealle his æhta, anes dæges forleas, ac he hæfde geðyld. a1200 (?OE) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 187 (MED) Þe man is ofeald þe..is stedefast to-genes god and men alse Iob was, þe wan wið þe wurse. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 182 (MED) Þe ilke þet al nimþ ine þolmodnesse ase dede iob and him lefþ al ine god ouercomþ þis viȝt. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) James v. 11 Ȝe herden the suffring or pacience of Job [1534 Tyndale hearde of the pacience of Iob, 1611 King James heard of the patience of Iob]. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 2505 To ben for evere til I deie As povere as Job. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 436 Ye sholden be al pacient and meke And han a swete spyced conscience Sith ye so preche of Iobes pacience. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) l. 526 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 503 (MED) This newe Iob, i-cast in indigence, He weepith, wayleth, soleyn and solitarye. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 41 (MED) Yn þe er founden..þe pacience of Iob, þe chastite of daniel. 1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 210 Tushe, thou art as poore as Iob. a1571 J. Jewel Expos. 1 Thess. 99 in Wks. (1611) Who hath not heard of the patience of Iob? 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 243 We passed a sad night in this place, and never had more need of Job his patience then heere. 1699 E. Ward London Spy I. viii. 11 It has kept me and my Family as poor as Job this fifteen years. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. viii. 68 You would provoke the Patience of Job . View more context for this quotation 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. viii. 25 Dr. Slop must have had three fifths of Job's patience..to have unloosed them [sc. knots]. 1822 Ld. Byron Werner i. i. 401 He's poor as Job, and not so patient. 1884 W. E. Norris Thirlby Hall vi My uncle bore it with the patience of Job. 1897 ‘Ouida’ Massarenes viii They are as poor as Job and riddled with debts. 1936 T. Downing Case of Unconquered Sisters xii. 109 It's enough to try Job's own patience. 1951 J. Kerouac Let. 9 Jan. in Sel. Lett. 1940–56 (1995) 281 I am alone like Job on the foul-heap. 1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture ii. 102 I began to return later than I said I would, and instead of correcting me, she seemed to get more and more into her ‘Patience of Job’ thing. 1992 A. Thorpe Ulverton ii. 27 We remember the sufferings of Thomas Walters late of our parish whose scall was endured as Job's. 2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 Mar. (Central ed.) a14/3 The senator replied with the patience of Job. < as lemmas |
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