| 单词 | to go wool-gathering |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go (run, be) wool-gathering a. In figurative phrase to go (run, be) wool-gathering, formerly always a (or †on, †of) wool-gathering: to indulge in wandering fancies or purposeless thinking; to be in a dreamy or absent-minded state: said esp. of ‘the wits’, etc. Similarly, to send or set (a) wool-gathering. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > indulge in daydreams [verb (intransitive)] dream?c1400 saunterc1475 dump1530 to go (run, be) wool-gathering1553 to gather wool1577 reverie1832 reverize1836 Alnascharize1840 daydream1899 mice1984 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > cause to daydream [verb (transitive)] to send or set (a) wool-gathering1553 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. 59 Hackyng & hemmyng as though our wittes and our senses were a woll gatheryng. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. v. sig. Fff.ij/2 Their mindes goe a woll-gathering. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 24v To busy the wits of his people, for running a woolgathering. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders xxxix. 349 This gentle Frier (whose wit was not gone of wool~gathering). 1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 23 If you read them, but marked them not, your wits went on wooll-gathering at that instant. a1648 W. Percy Cuck-queanes & Cuckolds Errants (1824) iv. i. 46 My Husband..[had] so drawne mee, after him, on woole-gathering, in search of him, as now you see mee. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 41 He..sends his Father-in-law almost a wooll-gathering. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxxviii. 326 That my wits may not be sent a wooll-gathering. 1796 Girlh. M. J. Holroyd (1896) 386 I suppose you thought my Brains were Wool gathering! 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 13 Sacred Poets have..gone a woolgathering after ‘Ideals’ and such like. 1890 J. Hatton By Order of Czar ii. xii You are wool-gathering a little, eh? < as lemmas |
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