单词 | still as a stone |
释义 | > as lemmas(as) still as a stone a. As a type of motionlessness or fixity; esp. in (as) still as a stone. ? Obsolete. (Cf. stone-still adv. and adj.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > not moving [phrase] (as) still as a stonea1225 a1225 Leg. Kath. 1253 Þt nan ne seide na wiht, ah seten stille ase stan. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 102 He lay stille as eny ston. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xv. 16 Let feare and drede fall vpon them..that they maye be as styll as a stone. 1656 T. Fuller Coll. Serm. 12 Sit not there as a stone upon a stoole. < as lemmas |
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