单词 | to fatten into |
释义 | > as lemmasto fatten into c. transferred and figurative. to fatten into: to bring into a certain state by pampering (rare). to fatten out: to drive out by fattening. ΚΠ 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Hvj I..praye him..to fatten all I haue, Excepte my witte alone. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 235 Choosing rather to fatten themselves by a contented Notion, than by curious inquisition to perplex their other recreations. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 504 The excise is fattened with the rich result Of all this riot. 1840 T. Arnold Let. in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1881) II. ix. 163 It is then quite too late to try to fatten them [men] into obedience. 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. p. xxi John Bull has suffered the idea of the Invisible to be very much fattened out of him. < as lemmas |
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