单词 | to carry coals |
释义 | > as lemmasto carry (also bear) coals ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > be humiliated [verb (intransitive)] to light lowc1225 to lie lowa1275 to carry (also bear) coalsa1529 to eat the (or one's) leek1600 to lose caste1828 to eat dirt1857 a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) sig. A.vii Wyll ye bere no coles. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 113/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I This Gentleman was..one that in an vpright quarel would beare no coles. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. i. 1 Of my word Ile carrie no coales. View more context for this quotation 1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. C2 For now if one..will carrie coales, and meekely suffer rebuke, he is noted of cowardize. a1683 B. Whichcote Sel. Serm. (1698) ii. ii. 328 Those who are sensible that they carry Coals, and are full of Ill-will. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xi. 171 I am no dog in the manger—but I will not carry coals neither—mind that, my Master Tressilian. < as lemmas |
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