| 单词 | the coming of the cocklicranes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe coming (also advent) of the cocklicranes 2. In phrases alluding to quot. 16531 at sense 1, suggesting that a certain event, change, etc., is impossibly distant or will never come to pass, or that a certain state of affairs will continue indefinitely. Chiefly in the coming (also advent) of the cocklicranes, as the type of an event that is impossibly distant or will never happen. ΚΠ 1828 J. Wilson et al. Noctes Ambrosianae xxxvii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 503 Reasons sufficient for being sorry were he [sc. the Emperor Nicholas] ever to be so far reduced as to look for the advent of the Cocklicranes to be reinstated on the throne of all the Russias. 1864 Punch 13 Feb. 63/1 Mr. Disraeli delivered a slashing speech against Ministers generally, but chiefly against Lord Russell, to whose office Mr. Disraeli has obtained his own consent to succeed, when the Tories and the Cocklicranes come in. 1919 Classical Jrnl. 14 207 Today the large body of college students is ignorant of biblical history and will remain so until the coming of the Cocklicranes. 1941 ‘J. J. Connington’ Twenty-one Clues vi. 79 ‘What are you doing there?’ he demanded. ‘Waiting for the Coming of the Cocklicranes,’ said Peter... ‘But they seem a bit behind time.’ < as lemmas |
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