| 单词 | the thirty years' war |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Thirty Years' War c. Phrases. the Thirty (Tyrants): the thirty magistrates imposed by Sparta upon the Athenians at the end of the Peloponnesian war (403 b.c.). the Thirty Years' War: the religious wars of 1618–48 fought chiefly on German soil. like thirty cents and variants, cheap, worthless (U.S. slang). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war Punic War1556 Vandal war1613 American Civil War1775 Seven Years War1775 Revolutionary Wara1784 Peninsular war1811 Great War1815 Mormon war1833 opium war1841 the Thirty Years' War1841 the Thirty Years' War1842 Mexican War1846 Napoleonic War1850 Crimean War1854 Hundred Years War1874 Balkan war1881 Boer War1883 Winter War1939 Six Day War1967 Yom Kippur War1973 Gulf War1981 Falklands conflict1982 society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > [noun] > in ancient Greece > specific body of undecimvirs1728 undecimvirate1775 the Thirty (Tyrants)1875 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > contemptible [phrase] like thirty cents1906 lower than a snake's belly1932 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 382/1 This conquest was the last important event of the Thirty Years' War, which began and ended at Prague. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 266 Anytus..had joined Thrasybulus in the conflict with the Thirty. 1896 G. Ade Artie i. 8 If I had time I'd go over to that church and make a lot o' them Reubs look like thirty-cent pieces. 1906 J. London Let. 24 Nov. (1966) 225 You made my exposition look like thirty cents. 1944 Chicago Daily News 31 July 3/6 (heading) Sues to make Uncle Sam feel like a 30-cent refund. 1973 T. Tobin Lett. G. Ade 2 Feeling ‘like thirty cents’ and ‘the cold gray dawn of the morning after’ became part of the American idiom. the Thirty Years' War Often with identifying word or phrase, as in the Trojan war, the Punic Wars, the Wars of the Roses, the Thirty Years' War. Sacred War [= Greek ἱερὸς πόλεμος] : in Ancient Greek History, the designation of two wars ( b.c. 595 and 357–346) waged by the Amphictyonic Council against Phocis in punishment of alleged sacrilege. War between the States (esp. in the use of Southerners), the American Civil War. For holy war, servile war, social war, see the adjectives.extracted from warn.1< as lemmas |
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