| 单词 | the very moral of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe very moral of—— b. colloquial. A counterpart, a likeness. Chiefly in the very moral of——. Cf. model n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > image of a person or thing print1340 imagec1384 similitude?a1425 picturec1475 similitudeness1547 portrait1567 idol1590 model1594 self-imagea1672 duplicate1701 moral1751 ditto1776 fetch1787 double1798 fetch-like1841 splitting image1880 spitting image1901 spit1929 split-image1950 clone1977 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xiv. 99 He is the very moral of you, and as like as if he had been spit out of your own mouth. 1791 E. Nairne Dame Hobday in Poems 77 The whole moral of his dad. 1819 W. Scott Let. 7 Aug. (1933) V. 450 He is certainly the very moral of Parson Abraham Adams. 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh lvi. 344 He's the very moral (as the old women call it) of Sir John. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 102 He's..the very moral of a horse the whipper-in..rode. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 160/1 [East Suffolk] She is the very moral of her mother. < as lemmas |
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