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单词 the black ox has trod on his foot
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the black ox has trod on his (also her, etc.) foot
3. figurative. the black ox: adversity, hardship, misfortune; the cares of life. Chiefly in the black ox has trod on his (also her, etc.) foot and variants. Now archaic.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > in adversity [phrase] > adversity has afflicted one
the black ox has trod on his (also her, etc.) foot1546
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun]
eld971
old agec1330
agec1380
last agea1382
oldc1385
aldereldea1400
winterc1425
vilessec1430
annosityc1450
senectute1481
the black ox1546
golden years1559
years1561
great1587
afterlife1589
setting sun1597
antiquity1600
chair-daysa1616
the vale of yearsa1616
grandevity1623
green old age1634
eldship1647
senioritya1688
the other side of the hill1691
the decline of life1711
senectude1756
senility1791
senectitude1796
post-climacteric1826
Anno Domini1885
senium1911
golden age1946
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. vii. sig. B4 It was yet but hony moone. The blacke oxe had not trode on his nor her foote.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvi. 139 Till the blacke oxe tread vpon his toes, and neede make him trie what mettle he is made of.
1591 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao iv. ii She was a pretie wench,..now crowes foote is on her eye, & the black oxe hath troad on her foote.
a1635 E. Fairfax Dæmonologia (1882) iv. 170 The black ox treads not yet upon thy toe, Nor thy good fortune turns her wheele away.
a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub iv. vi, in Wks. (1640) III The black Oxe never trod yet O your foot. View more context for this quotation
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xliii. 301 The common phrases of wild oats, and black oxen, and such-like, were qualifiers.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xi. 227 The black ox has tramped on ye since I was aneath your roof-tree.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. iv. 171 The ‘black ox’ trod on the fairy foot of my light-hearted cousin Fan.
1919 H. Trench Napoleon iii. i. 67 Ah, has the black ox trodden on your foot?
1985 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 20 Mar. 21 Go any deeper into Stevie Smith, and you may wish you hadn't. She was one on whom the black ox hath trod.
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