英语词汇“the sky is falling”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. the sky is falling and variants: used to indicate an alarmist, melodramatic, or hysterical sense of impending disaster. Also attributive or as adj. [With allusion to the folk tale of Chicken Little (also Chicken Licken), first recorded in 1823 in Danish by J. M. Thiele, in which a chicken spreads alarm after mistakenly believing that the sky is falling and the world is coming to end. See, e.g., quot. 1851, and compare the following from the earliest recorded English version:

1840 J. G. Chandler Remarkable story Chicken Little 2 Chicken Little..ran under a rose-bush, and a leaf fell on her tail; so she was dreadfully frightened, and ran away to Hen Pen. ‘Oh, Hen Pen,’ said she, ‘the sky is falling!’

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1834 St. James's Chron. 22 Nov. They talk of the ‘astounding effect’ produced by the news of the ejection of the Whig-Radical administration; but we can assure them that in our part of the country the sky has not fallen.

1851 Rep. Proc. Exam. C. G. Davis 25 Only some frightened innocents, like the goose, the duck and the turkey in the fable, say the sky is falling, and they must go and tell the king!

1882 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life III. 383 With the Tories, one has long been familiar with their cries that ‘the sky is falling’.

1918 C. J. Bulliet Robert Mantell's Romance v. 28 No questions were asked. The sky didn't fall. Bobbie had ‘got away with it’.

1931 Timberman Aug. 23/1 When prosperity is booming most of us think the sky is the limit; then when depression comes we go to the other extreme and think the sky is falling.

1967 Redlands (Calif.) Daily Facts 25 Jan. 5/3 The ‘Chicken Little—the sky is falling’ attitude on the part of the scholars, has added to the fires of confusion.

2015 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 29 Dec. (Sports section) b7 When Canada lost its first preliminary game for the first time in five years, there was the usual sky-is-falling concern spreading across the country.

单词	the sky is falling
释义	> as lemmas the sky is falling P2. the sky is falling and variants: used to indicate an alarmist, melodramatic, or hysterical sense of impending disaster. Also attributive or as adj. [With allusion to the folk tale of Chicken Little (also Chicken Licken), first recorded in 1823 in Danish by J. M. Thiele, in which a chicken spreads alarm after mistakenly believing that the sky is falling and the world is coming to end. See, e.g., quot. 1851, and compare the following from the earliest recorded English version: 1840 J. G. Chandler Remarkable story Chicken Little 2 Chicken Little..ran under a rose-bush, and a leaf fell on her tail; so she was dreadfully frightened, and ran away to Hen Pen. ‘Oh, Hen Pen,’ said she, ‘the sky is falling!’ ] ΚΠ 1834 St. James's Chron. 22 Nov. They talk of the ‘astounding effect’ produced by the news of the ejection of the Whig-Radical administration; but we can assure them that in our part of the country the sky has not fallen. 1851 Rep. Proc. Exam. C. G. Davis 25 Only some frightened innocents, like the goose, the duck and the turkey in the fable, say the sky is falling, and they must go and tell the king! 1882 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life III. 383 With the Tories, one has long been familiar with their cries that ‘the sky is falling’. 1918 C. J. Bulliet Robert Mantell's Romance v. 28 No questions were asked. The sky didn't fall. Bobbie had ‘got away with it’. 1931 Timberman Aug. 23/1 When prosperity is booming most of us think the sky is the limit; then when depression comes we go to the other extreme and think the sky is falling. 1967 Redlands (Calif.) Daily Facts 25 Jan. 5/3 The ‘Chicken Little—the sky is falling’ attitude on the part of the scholars, has added to the fires of confusion. 2015 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 29 Dec. (Sports section) b7 When Canada lost its first preliminary game for the first time in five years, there was the usual sky-is-falling concern spreading across the country. extracted from skyn.¹ < as lemmas
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