单词 | to make the blood run cold |
释义 | > as lemmasto make the blood run cold i. to make the blood run cold and variants: (colloquial) to cause to feel a sense of dread or foreboding; to terrify. ΚΠ a1593 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid in J. Davies & C. Marlowe Epigrammes & Elegies (?1599) sig. E4v My soule fleetes when I thinke what you haue done, and through euerie vaine doth cold bloud runne.] 1676 E. Settle Conquest of China by Tartars ii. 17 A sudden check makes my faint Blood run cold. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. x. 220 You have made my Blood run cold with the very mentioning the Top of that Mountain. View more context for this quotation 1818 Edinb. Rev. 30 238 Her whole appearance, gestures, voice and dress, made De Courcy's blood run cold within him. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. i. 19 It kinder makes my blood run cold to think on't. 1919 F. Alley Dignity of Man vi. 32 The awful account of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem by Josephus is ghastly and makes the blood run cold even to read it at this late day. 1997 R. Bowen Evans Above (1999) xiv. 126 You're not saying I might have seen the murdering brute with my own eyes are you..? To think I might have been up on the mountain alone with him. It makes the blood run cold, doesn't it? < as lemmas |
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