单词 | the devil and his dam |
释义 | > as lemmasthe devil and his dam ΚΠ 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 284 Rys vp ragamoffyn and reche me alle þe barres, That belial þy bel-syre beot with þy damme. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Dv The deuyll or hys dam. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iii. 52 Ant. It is the diuell. S. Dro. Nay, she is worse, she is the diuels dam. View more context for this quotation 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. 405 Such Words and Sayings are a Discredit to your self, and a Scandle to the Beauty of our Language; as for Instance..the Devil and his Dam. 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) ii Trivenefica, a great witch, a devil's dam. < as lemmas |
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