| 单词 | to laugh up one's sleeve |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto laugh up (also in) one's sleeve d. to laugh up (also in) one's sleeve: to laugh to oneself; to nurse inward feelings of amusement or derision. [After post-classical Latin ridere in sinum (1555 in the passage translated in quot. 1560).] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh to oneself to laugh up (also in) one's sleeve1560 smudge1808 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxiiij If I coueted nowe to auenge the iniuries that you haue done me, I myght laughe in my slyue [L. riderem in sinum]. 1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. Fv Neuer laugh in your sleeue, how you haue gulled or bulled your husband. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 228 Thou..hast fleerd and laught in thy sleeve at the sincere. 1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 19 Where, safe and laughing in his sleeve, He heard the distant din of war. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals ii. i. 31 'Tis false, Sir! I know you are laughing in your sleeve. 1853 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna i. ii The Gods laugh in their sleeve To watch man doubt and fear. 1888 Times 20 Sept. 7/2 Irishmen..laugh in their sleeve when the dull respectabilities of the Gladstonian party take the thing seriously. 1943 E. Blyton Summer Term at St Clare's vii. 46 She was annoyed to think that her class might be laughing up their sleeves at her. 1985 T. Waits Anywhere I lay my Head (song) in Rain Dogs (CD lyrics booklet) She's laughing in her sleeve at me I can feel it in my bones. 2003 P. Lovesey House Sitter (2004) xxii. 338 He's laughing up his sleeve, Hen. I'm sure he was stringing me along. < as lemmas |
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