单词 | to cast the first stone |
释义 | > as lemmasto cast the first stone g. to throw (cast) a stone or stones (at): to make an attack (upon), or bring an accusation (against). So to cast the first stone (in allusion to John viii. 7). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > make accusation [phrase] to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handc1300 to lay the blame on1393 to give the wrong to?1473 to lay in (his) neckc1515 to cast (any one) in the teeth1526 to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526 to lay to (also cast in) a person's nose1526 to dash one in the teeth with (something)1530 call to or in coram1542 to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551 to throw (cast) a stone or stones (at)1568 to cast up1604 to nail to the barn door1894 1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvii. 83 Quhat cummer castis the formest stane,..At tha peure winschis ȝe wranguslie suspect. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 325 Will not all the Grammarians, Logicians, and Rhetoricians..throwe stones at him? a1633 G. Herbert Jacula Prudentum (1651) §196 Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 11 Who hath glass-windows of his own must take heed how he throws stones at his house. 1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 413 The Doctor, as if he were perfectly free from this crime, thus throweth his stones at others. 1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act II. lv. 116 Thee shouldst not throw Stones, who hast a Head of Glass thyself. 1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate v It is not, however, prudent to commence with throwing stones, just when I am striking out windows of my own. 1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 400 They who live in glass houses should not throw stones. < as lemmas |
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