单词 | to stink in nostrils |
释义 | > as lemmasto stink in (a person's) nostrils b. figurative. To be offensive; to be abhorrent; to savour offensively of something. Phrases, to stink in (a person's) nostrils; also (slang), to stink of (or with) money: to be ‘offensively’ rich. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > become loathsome [verb (intransitive)] aloatheOE stink?c1225 repugn1831 the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > loathe or abhor [verb (intransitive)] > be loathsome or abhorrent loathec893 stink?c1225 the mind > possession > wealth > be rich [verb (intransitive)] > be very rich wallowa1400 to roll in ——1573 to stink of (or with) money1877 roll1883 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 110 Ach þulli sacrefise stinkeð to ure lauerd. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 8312 Þese twey cytees, boþe þey sank, For þey hadde ioye at synne þat stank. c1450 Mirk's Festial 68 For oure forme synne stanke soo yn Godys nase, þat [etc.]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. x. A The name of the vngodly shal stynke. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 160 He makes our profession as it were to stincke afore the face of the gods. View more context for this quotation 1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. ii. 141 A false wicked tongue stinkes of an hereticall conscience, but what then? 1674 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 359 To make me stincke in the nostrills of my ould associates. 1867 Goldw. Smith in Brodrick Ess. Reform 230 Reputed renegades, whose names stank in the nostrils of the party which they had left. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 239/2 A very proud man is said to ‘stink wi' pride’, a very rich one to ‘stink o' brass’. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 7 We told the man we could..make such a scandal out of this, as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other. 1919 E. Jones in Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 13 273 We speak of a ‘dirty or filthy miser’, of a man ‘rolling’ or ‘wallowing’ in money, or of a man ‘stinking of money’. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 7 Touch him for a guinea. He's stinking with money. 1932 I. Brown Marine Parade xii. 152 We must do our best. He stinks of money. Will you fix up about rooms and for God's sake let's have a decent dinner. < as lemmas |
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