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单词 tale of woe
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tale of woe
P5. tale of woe: a narrative of (one's) problems or misfortunes. Often humorous or in hyperbolical use.
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1599 H. Petowe Philochasander & Elanira xl. sig. F4 She rauisht seem'd to heare that tale of woe.
1658 J. Mennes & J. Smith Wit Restor'd 171 Tell her this tale of woe. Tell her where she may finde Me tottering in the winde.
1684 Strange News from Newberry (single sheet) Attend with Lamentation, unto a tale of woe.
1764 T. Phillips Hist. Life R. Pole II. v. 293 The transactions of those ten years amount to no more than a Tale of Woe.
1790 S. T. Coleridge Genevieve 8 Within your soul a voice there lives! It bids you hear the tale of Woe.
1850 Eclectic Rev. Oct. 495 Ask the farmer what he thinks of..the ‘rust’ and ‘red robin’, and there will be unfolded such a tale of woe, such a history of ruin and calamity.
1880 Newcastle Courant 2 Jan. 4/5 Figures, especially when they are exact, are often destructive to a tale of woe.
1916 S. S. Sidelsky Tales of Traveler ii. 38 There we sat for the remainder of the day,..telling each other tales of woe in our experience with Carnation cuttings.
1951 Sport 16 Mar. 4/2 Listen to the tale of woe from Swindon Town, who..suffered their 16th away league defeat.
2014 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 13 Oct. (NorthSide section) 1 jh Tell us your gas price tales of woe.
extracted from woeint.adv.n.adj.
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