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单词 to flap at with a fox's tail
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to flap at (something) with a fox's tail
d. intransitive. To make a flap or stroke. Also with down. †to flap at (something) with a fox's tail: said figuratively of a lenient or pretended reproof.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > gently or leniently
to flap at (something) with a fox's tail1581
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. xvi. 582 This is but..to strike or flap at a fault with a Foxe taile, and none other.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 108/2 I flap down with the border of my glove, and brush away..these gossamer pretensions.
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