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单词 to carry coals
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to carry (also bear) coals
P4. to carry (also bear) coals: to do degrading or menial work; (hence figurative) to submit to humiliating or insulting treatment. Obsolete (archaic in later use). Cf. coal carrier n. 1.
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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.
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