单词 | to kill with kindness |
释义 | > as lemmasto kill with kindness d. to kill with kindness: to destroy or fatally harm by mistaken and excessive kindness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > with excessive or mistaken kindness to kill with kindnessc1558 c1558 Enterlude of Welth, & Helth sig. D1v With kindnes my her ye do kyll. 1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. Tivv You will kill her with kindnesse. 1607 T. Heywood (title) A woman kilde with kindnesse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 194 This is a way to kil a Wife with kindnesse. View more context for this quotation 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 100 Tom Coriat..was killed with Kindness by the English Merchants. 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. i. 25 I bear her an amorous grudge still..I cou'd kill her with kindness. 1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife iv. i. 67 You absolutely kill Him with Kindness. 1842 F. A. Kemble Let. 31 Mar. in Rec. Later Life (1882) II. 189 Lord Morpeth..has a..mother and sisters, and really should not, on their account, be killed with kindness. 1898 F. P. Dunne Mr. Dooley in Peace & War 38 ‘They'll kill him with kindness if he don't look out,’ said Mr. Hennessy. 1925 A. Huxley Along the Road 61 The country..has not been killed by the deadly kindness of those who, like myself, are nature's townsmen. 1935 I. J. C. Brown Heart of Eng. viii. 84 Now we purge by persuasion that new Beelzebub, the complex, or kill it by kindness. < as lemmas |
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