| 单词 | blessed are the dead that the rain rains on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblessed are the dead that the rain rains on P2. Proverb. blessed (also happy) is the corpse the rain falls on and variants: used to express the superstition that a person who is buried on a rainy day will fare well in the afterlife. Similarly blessed are the dead that the rain rains on, etc.Apparently with the implication that the heavens are weeping in sympathy. Sometimes used in conjunction with the phrase happy (also blessed) is the bride the sun shines on at bride n.1 Phrases 2. ΚΠ 1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine i. sig. A4 Oh..such a sweete husband haue I lost, haue I lost?—if Blessed bee the coarse the raine raynes vpon, he had it powring downe. 1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 53 Happy (says the Proverb) is..the Corpse the Rain rains on. 1837 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood (ed. 4) ii. xi. 147 Blessed is the corpse the rain rains on. Sir Piers may be drenched through his leaden covering by such a downfall as that... The heavens will weep for him. 1917 E. Thomas Poems 55 Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain On this bleak hut... Blessed are the dead that the rain rains upon: But here I pray that none whom once I loved Is dying to-night. 2015 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 13 Nov. ‘Something came to mind on the way here,’ Mullins said. ‘An old Irish saying: Happy is the bride the sun shines on, happy is the corpse the rain falls on.’ < as lemmas |
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