| 单词 | the toils of a net |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe toils of a net the toils of a net: the meshes of a net; (figurative) an entrapping set of circumstances. ΚΠ 1727 T. Sheridan Invitation Dr. Swift in J. Swift Wks. (1765) XVII. 150 A fresh bleeding bret, That's just disengag'd from the toils of a net. 1748 J. Geddes tr. Homer in Ess. Composition Antients 188 You stand idle and don't exhort your soldiers, to..prevent all of you from being caught by your enemys as in the toils of a net. 1834 Monthly Repository Aug. 586 They were caught in the toils of a net from which there was no escape. 1982 S. Reynolds tr. F. Braudel Wheels of Commerce (1992) iii. 314 Merchants and artisans were both caught in the toils of a net from which they never entirely escaped. 1994 M. Gilbert In Search of Churchill xv. 261 The Aesop fable in which a lion, caught in the toils of a net, is rescued by a mouse. < as lemmas |
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