单词 | to rob the spital |
释义 | > as lemmasto rob the spital a. = spittle n.1 1. Also in to rob the spital. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > make profit > profiteer to rob the spittle1632 to rob the spital1749 to laugh (also to cry and variants) all the way to the bank1908 profiteer1917 1634 Younger Brother's Apol. 50 Bryand Lyle,..hauing two sonnes, both leprous, built for them a Lazaretto or Spitall. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck App. Spitael, a Spitall, or Hospitall. 1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) i. iii. x. 226 This house has been a Religious house, time out of mind, sometimes under the Denomination of a Priory or College, sometimes under that of a Spittal [earlier edd. Spittle] or Hospital. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. i. 194 Defrauding the Poor,..or, to see it under the most opprobrious Colours, robbing the Spittal . View more context for this quotation 1764 C. Churchill Independence 19 They rob the very Spital, and make free With those alas who've least to spare. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft iv. 132 A witch from the spital or almshouse. 1865 Daily Tel. 26 Oct. 5/2 ‘Every inch a Queen’ was Eugénie when she drove from cholera-infected spital to spital. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket i. iv. 85 I ha' nine darters i' the spital. < as lemmas |
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