| 单词 | to darken a person's door |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto darken a person's door to darken a person's door and variants: to set foot inside a person's home. Usually in negative constructions indicating that a person should not, or does not, visit another; frequently in never darken my door, used to express that a person should stay away forever. Later also in extended use: to go to or visit a place. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (transitive)] > appear on threshold as a visitor to darken a person's door?1645 ?1645 J. Taylor Most Learned & Eloquent Speech 4 We have taken order, and given Ordinances that he shall not be troubled with either much money, or meate, and that his very Queene and lawfull Wife, shall not so much as darken his doore. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xl. 159 If ever my sister Clary darkens these doors again, I never will. 1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 11/1 You are the first minister that ever darkened these doors. 1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air II. iv. 82 Bella..has got it running in her head that my poor brother will never darken our threshold again. 1953 E. S. Grenfell in Landfall June 99 You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Tolly, never darkening a church door. 1988 S. Rushdie Satanic Verses (1998) 134 She..sent her whole family packing.., never darken her doorstep, she told them, cut the whole lot off without a penny. 2018 Times (Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Opinion section) 38 I hate you. Never darken my door again. < as lemmas |
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