| 单词 | to dip one's pen in gall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto dip one's pen in gall b. figurative. With reference to the bitterness of gall. to dip one's pen in gall, to write with virulence and rancour. Cf. quot. 1641 at sense 3a.Probably derived from instances like those in quots. 1605, a1616, where there appears to be a pun on gall n.3 (the oak-gall, which is used in the manufacture of ink). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [noun] > bitterness or acridity gallc1175 smartnessa1425 rhubarba1529 acrimony1542 acridity1547 amaritude1599 acerbity1608 acrity1619 asperity1620 acritude1650 acridness1702 bitterishness1702 crabbedness1715 acerbitude1727 amarulence1727 bitterness- society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > write vigorously or forcefully [verb (intransitive)] > write with virulence to dip one's pen in gall1750 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15419 To birrlenn firrst te swete win. & siþþenn bitterr galle. a1300 Cursor Mundi 25729 Hony þai bede and gif vs gall. a1415 J. Lydgate Temple Glas 192 Allas þat euer þat it shuld[e] fal, So soote sugre Icoupled be with gal! 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. C2 Ier. What, is your pen foule. Hor. No Father cleaner then lorenzoes soule, Thats dipt in inck made of an enuious gall, Elce had my pen no cause to write at all.] 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. F4v Loues sweets tast best, when we haue drunke downe Gall. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. ii. 47 Let there bee gaulle enough in thy inke, though thou write with a Goose-pen, no matter: about it. View more context for this quotation] 1624 F. Quarles Job Militant in Divine Poems xii. 88 His Plenty..shall Be Hony, tasted, but digested, Gall. 1750 J. Dove Creed founded on Truth 15 I shall omit the Consideration of the particular Reasons of these Differences, because I would not dip my pen in Gall. 1752 W. Mason Elfrida 56 Relentless Conscience Pours more of gall into the bitter cup Of their severe repentance. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 53 And yet was free from the gall of disappointment. 1828 Imperial Mag. Apr. 362/1 In the same spirit of bitter enmity..the Doctor has dipped his pen in gall, to blast the memory of that good man. 1892 Rev. Reviews V. 376/1 In the Contemporary Review for April an anonymous writer dips his pen in gall in order to depict the German Emperor. 1946 W. S. Maugham Then & Now 228 His pen had been dipped in gall and as he wrote he chuckled with malice. < as lemmas |
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