| 单词 | small-beer-drinker |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall-beer-drinker b. Objective (in sense 1), as small-beer brewer, small-beer drawer, small-beer-drinker. ΚΠ 1638 T. Whitaker Tree Humane Life 31 When as water or small-beere-drinkers looke like Apes rather then men. 1648 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 38 sig. Ddd1v This fellow was translated from a Translator to a small-beer-Brewer, the worst enemy of mankind. 1700 J. Jones Myst. Opium Reveal'd i. 11 Small beer-Drinkers, in comparison of Wine-Drinkers. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) xxv. 132 Under pain of having his said lucubrations burnt..by the hands of the small-beer drawer. 1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 159 Two considerable Small-Beer Brewers. 1793 London Packet 22 Mar. The combination of Small Beer Brewers, to raise the price of their beverage, should be resisted. 1868 Musical Times 23 May 349/1 If Mr. Bass bad required protection for his red triangle against a small-beer brewer [etc.]. 1996 P. Sambrook Country House Brewing Eng. 122 The small beer brewer could not brew by the book. < as lemmas |
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