| 单词 | to have a cobweb in the throat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a cobweb in the throat b. Any musty accumulation, accretion, or obstruction, which ought to be swept away, like dusty cobwebs in a room. to have a cobweb in the throat: to feel thirsty, or have a desire to drink. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirty accretion cobweba1586 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > an accumulation or obstruction cobweba1586 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > be thirsty [verb (intransitive)] thirstc950 dry1362 sitiate1599 to have a cobweb in the throat1844 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. F4v Being so euill apparrelled in the dust and cobwebbes of that vnciuil age. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 28 To sweep away these cobwebs of superstition. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 54 As if..he could not take Religion without taking too all the cobwebs and trumpery that have clung about it in some dirty corner of the nursery. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. ii. 66 He felt a cobweb in his throat. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iii. 41 Let us brush the cobwebs from our eyes. 1862 Athenæum 27 Sept. 397 An unfailing specific for clearing away cobwebs from the brain. < as lemmas |
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