| 单词 | safe home |
| 释义 | > as lemmassafe home P14. Chiefly Irish English. safe home: (as a farewell) ‘safe journey’, ‘get home safely’. [After various Irish expressions of farewell using the word slán (adjective) healthy, whole, safe, (noun) health, safety (see slauntiagh n.) and a reference to going home, in later use especially in the combination slán abhaile ( < slán + abhaile homewards), originally in longer phrases such as go dtuga Dia slán abhaile thú ‘may God lead you home safely’ (compare a similar construction in quot. 1824). Compare also Irish slán leat, lit. ‘safety with you’, slán agat, lit. ‘safety at you’, and slán, all used in the sense ‘farewell’.] ΚΠ 1732 C. O'Begly Eng. Irish Dict. 592/1 I wish you safe home, go srojġṫe tú slán ċum dáruis [‘may you get safely to your home’]. 1824 T. C. Croker Researches S. Ireland xii. 223 If the traveller has to apprehend danger on his route, the expressions are more energetic, as ‘Safe home to you by the help of God’. 1847 Dolman's Mag. Nov. 280 A civil ‘safe home, sir’, and a touch of the hat to myself, was sufficient evidence of good will and national courtesy. 1907 New Eng. Mag. Sept. 45/1 Wade followed him to the edge of the clearing with his first sense of loneliness tugging within him. ‘Safe home to you, Mr. Ide,’ he said. 2000 M. Fletcher Silver Linings (2001) ix. 244 ‘I'll not hold yer back,’ he told me as I made to go. ‘Right yer be. Safe home.’ < as lemmas |
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