| 单词 | blow one's own trumpet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto blow one's own trumpet a. transitive. To make (a wind-instrument) sound. (Formerly also with up, out.) to blow one's own trumpet: (figurative) to sound one's own praises, to brag. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > found or cast (object) blowc1000 yetOE cast1496 found1562 run1690 pour1873 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)] blowc1000 blazec1384 blast1530 toot1614 breathe1718 tootle1890 c1000 West Saxon Gospells: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 2 Ne blawe man byman beforan þe. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 115 Þe bemene drem þe þe engles blewen. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 775 Whan a pipe is blowen sharpe The aire ys twyst with violence. c1450 J. Lydgate Merita Missæ 171 Pryd gothe beforen And schame comythe aftyr, and blawythe horne. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xlvi. 139 They..blew vp their trompettes for to gyue a sharpe sawte. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. iii. 54 They blewe out the trompettes. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxxxi. 3 Blow vp the trumpet in the new Moone. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Hosea v. 8 Blow yee the cornet in Gibeah. View more context for this quotation 1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art ix, in Poems (new ed.) 71 The belted hunter blew His wreathèd buglehorn. to blow one's own trumpet 3. figurative. A means or agent (real or imaginary) which proclaims, celebrates, or gives warning of something. to blow one's own trumpet, to sound one's own praises, boast, brag. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer teller1340 professora1387 trumpet1447 blazerc1450 denouncer1490 trump1531 ebuccinator1542 declarer1548 proclaimer1548 announcer?1549 trumpet1549 trumpeter1581 blazoner1603 speaker1623 proclamator1650 annunciator1696 proclaimant1837 tooter1863 spruiker1893 spieler1894 the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > utter boastfully [verb (transitive)] avauntc1374 blowc1380 brag1627 vaunt1633 vapour1658 to blow one's own trumpet1854 woof1934 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 1193 Whan it was knowe..And be the trumpet of fame aboute blowe. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid i. Prol. 346 Venerable Chaucer, principall poet but peir, Hevinlie trumpat, horleige and reguleir. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxiiij, (margin) The decree of Wormes was the trompet of this warre. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 59 I will..sound the trumpet of mine owne merites. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 31 Why..was this Nation chos'n..that out of her..should be..sounded forth the first tidings and trumpet of Reformation to all Europ? 1783 ‘P. Pindar’ More Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians vii. 16 Sound their own praise from their own penny trumpet. 1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 148 The Cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep. View more context for this quotation 1854 M. Reid Young Voyageurs v. 71 They may live to ‘blow their own trumpet’ a long while yet. 1887 W. S. Gilbert Ruddigore i. 12 You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet. 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 22 It was with a great flourish of newspaper trumpets that I started off. 1952 A. Buckeridge Jennings & Darbishire ii. 27 I vote we're not allowed to vote for ourselves because my father says it's swanking to blow your own trumpet. 1983 P. Roberts Tender Prey xiv. 165 I was not averse to blowing my own trumpet. Modesty is a fool's game. < as lemmas |
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