| 单词 | the house that —— built |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe house that —— built P6. the house that —— built: used to attribute the success or creation of something to the specified person or thing.With allusion to the children's rhyme ‘This is the House that Jack Built’: see quot. 1707.Sometimes as part of an extended adaptation of the full rhyme: see quot. 1784. ΚΠ 1707 J. Stevens tr. Life Estevanillo Gonzales vi, in Spanish Libertines 370 It is just like the Tale the Children tell of, This is the Stick that beat the Dog, the Dog that bit the Cat, the Cat that kill'd the Mouse, the Mouse that eat the Malt, the Malt that lay in the House that Jack built.] 1784 J. Hartley Hist. Westm. Election 286 Mr. Wilkes. This is the Patriot covered with scorn, that flattered the Scot by all forsworn, that wedded the maiden all forlorn, that..killed the rat, that eat the malt, that lay in the house that George [sc. George Nugent Grenville, Earl Temple] built. 1869 Western Temperance Herald 1 Oct. 157/1 The Almshouse: This is the house that rum built. 1907 Cent. Mag. May 162/1 This is the Locke, who..guarded the substances, mind and matter, that lay in the House that Descartes built. 1927 Los Angeles Times 4 Jan. ii. 13/6 The final shot showed a picture of the Yankee Stadium with a banner attached labeled ‘The House That Ruth Built’. 2004 P. Biskind Down & Dirty Pictures i. 35 Carolco..was eager to shed the image of being the house that Rambo built. < as lemmas |
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