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单词 to pass the lips
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to pass the lips (also mouth)
22. to pass the lips (also mouth):
a. transitive. To come out of the mouth, to be spoken.
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the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > be spoken or flow (of words)
move1508
to pass the lips (also mouth)1526
come1582
roll1599
distil1610
to come out1653
mouth1762
utter1792
on-flow1863
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMiiii Kepe it in the, that it passe nat thy mouthe.
1633 E. Ford Famovs Hist. Montelyon xxi. 109 It shall neuer passe my lips, whilest life doth last, for I so much abhorre the fact, that I hate to speake of it.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xxi. 128 Many things are reported of him which..he has forgot as soon as the words have passed his lips.
1755 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann 15 June I will describe him to you, if I can, but don't let it pass your lips.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 20 Mother, let not aught Of..evil, pass again My lips.
1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray II. xii. 242 No threat against the absent brewer passed her mouth.
1906 B. Carman Pipes of Pan V. 56 To think such moody and unmanly words Could ever pass the mouth thy mouth has pressed.
1994 Fellowship Catholic Scholars Newslet. Dec. 48/1 Bush, realizing the ‘G’ word had passed his lips, hastened to reassure his listeners..that his god, at least, was apolitical.
b. transitive. To be put into the mouth, to be eaten or drunk. Chiefly in negative contexts.
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1728 J. Thomson Agamemnon I. i. 1 Nor has Food pass'd Your loathing Lips.
1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard II. xiii. 23 Nothing stronger than water has passed my lips for years.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 30 Oct. 3/2 Not a morsel or drop ever passes the Sultan's lips, they say, until he has tried it first on a tester.
1958 J. Kesson White Bird Passes iv. 48 Not another drop passed my lips.
2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 1 Sept. 52/1 Cooked food has not passed Klein's lips in five years.
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