单词 | spitting exordium |
释义 | > as lemmasspitting exordium b. Miscellaneous, as spitting distance, spitting exordium, spitting range, spitting sickness. ΚΠ 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 31 This counterpoyson of the spitting sickenesse. 1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xii. sig. H4v Hee [sc. Montaigne]..forceth you not to attention with a hem, & a spitting Exordium. a1758 J. Edwards Hist. Redempt. (1782) ii. ii. 155 He did not think it too much..to become the laughing-stock and spitting-stock of the vilest of men. 1895 H. Maxwell Duke of Brit. xix. 280 You had him almost within spitting range. 1959 P. Bull I know Face iv. 70 One of the reasons I had closed with the Chatham offer was that it was within spitting distance of London. 1965 Listener 3 June 841/3 All this the spectators can see at spitting distance. 1977 Western Mail (Cardiff) 5 Mar. 6/1 More than doubled pre-tax profits has taken the Midland Bank to within spitting distance of its two giant High Street rivals—National Westminster and Barclays. < as lemmas |
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