| 单词 | to blow one's own horn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn b. to wind the horn: to blow a blast on the horn, to sound the horn; also figurative of insects making a piping or humming sound. to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn: ‘to blow one's own trumpet’ (see trumpet n. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [verb (intransitive)] > make piping or humming sound to wind the horn1611 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] > sound horn to blow (the) prisec1300 poopc1390 strakea1400 recheatc1400 rechasec1425 to blow the quarryc1560 jeopard1575 to wind the horn1611 to sound the prise1803 horn1874 the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)] yelpc888 kebc1315 glorify1340 to make avauntc1340 boast1377 brag1377 to shake boastc1380 glorya1382 to make (one's) boastc1385 crackc1470 avaunt1471 glaster1513 voust1513 to make (one's or a) vauntc1515 jet?1521 vaunt?1521 crowa1529 rail1530 devauntc1540 brave1549 vaunt1611 thrasonize1619 vapour1629 ostentate1670 goster1673 flourish1674 rodomontade1681 taper1683 gasconade1717 stump1721 rift1794 mang1819 snigger1823 gab1825 cackle1847 to talk horse1855 skite1857 to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859 to shoot off one's mouth1864 spreadeagle1866 swank1874 bum1877 to sound off1918 woof1934 to shoot a line1941 to honk off1952 to mouth off1958 blow- 1611 T. Heywood Golden Age ii. sig. Ev, (stage direct.) Hornes winded..Winde hornes. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 7 Neither may the Citizens..winde a Horne in their night watches. 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 21 in Justa Edouardo King What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn. 1747 W. Collins Odes 36 Or where the Beetle winds His small but sullen Horn. 1789 W. Blake School-boy in Songs of Innocence The distant huntsman winds his horn. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 21 But scarce again his horn he wound. 1859 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. (1917) I. 43 Permit me to ‘blow my horn’. 1860 G. D. Prentice Prenticeana 63 ‘Blowing your own horn I see,’ said his comrade. 1903 A. W. Patterson Schumann 167 Surely these side~lights upon the straightforwardness and integrity of the man entirely free him from the calumny of ever being guilty of ‘blowing his own horn’. 1940 A. E. Hertzler Doctors & Patients (1941) ii. 47 He that tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted. 1949 E. S. Gardner Case of Half-wakened Wife ii. 9 Gregory, on the other hand, had been reticent, inarticulate, sensitive, a man who modestly refrained from tooting his own horn and didn't like to hear others talk about themselves. < as lemmas |
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