| 单词 | to stick in the mire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stick in the mire b. figurative and in figurative context. An undesirable state or condition (formerly esp. of sin or moral degradation) from which it is difficult to extricate oneself. Esp. in to bring (also drag, lay, leave, etc.) in the mire; to stick in the mire; to find oneself in the mire. ΚΠ c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 508 He [sc. a priest]..leet his sheepe encombred in the myre. c1390 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 290 A thousand folk hath rakel ire Fully fordoon or broght hem in the myre. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 2733 He dremeth ofte Hou that he stiketh in the Myr. c1400 J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 286 (MED) Synne..bryngiþ his doere into þe same myre þat he eschewiþ. a1450 York Plays (1885) 387 Þou motes his men in to þe myre. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxvii But ofte they slyde, and so fall in the myre. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxviii. 1 The waters are come in euen vnto my soule. I sticke fast in the depe myre. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Two Mortimers f. vi The subtyll quean [i.e. Fortune] behynde me set a trap, Whereby to dashe and laye all in the myre. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. ii. 58 Honest water, which nere left man i' th' mire . View more context for this quotation 1622 F. Bacon in J. Spedding Life (1874) VII. 385 That thrice noble prince..will help to pull me..out of the mire of an abject and sordid condition. 1739 M. Jones Let. 8 Jan. in Misc. in Prose & Verse (1750) 385 Me, your adventrous Chaise-oteer! Who am not yet reconcil'd to the Terrors of leaving your Ladyship in the Mire. 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 12 For sordid Lucre plunge we in the Mire? 1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 338 Drowning in the horrible mire of doubt. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Sept. 1/2 Sir Edmund Hornby..when he leaves the general for the particular finds himself in the mire. 1989 Times 27 Feb. 13/5 If the mire of bureaucracy is to be avoided, such questions must be dealt with by a unified authority. < as lemmas |
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