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单词 to throw dust in the eyes of
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to throw dust in the eyes of
4. Phrases. to shake the dust off one's feet (in allusion to Matthew x. 14, etc.). to throw dust in the eyes of: to confuse, mislead, or dupe by making ‘blind’ to the actual facts of the case. to bite the dust: to fall to the ground; esp. to fall wounded or slain (see also bite v. Phrases 2a). For other phrases, see senses 3, 5.
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c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) x. 14 Asceacaþ þæt dust of eowrum fotum.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. x. 14 Ȝee goynge forth fro that hous, or citee, smytith awey the dust fro ȝoure feet.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 27 b They doe nothing else but raise a dust to doe out their owne eies.
1612 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 169 To countermine his underminers, and, as he termed it, to cast dust in their eyes.
c1767 B. Franklin Wks. (1887) IV. 79 It required a long discourse to throw dust in the eyes of common sense.
1856 C. J. Andersson Lake Ngami 94 In the course of half an hour, he had twice bitten the dust.
1856 C. J. Andersson Lake Ngami 363 He..had made numerous lions bite the dust.
1862 J. W. Colenso Pentateuch 6 I was not able long to throw dust in the eyes of my own mind and do violence to the love of truth in this way.
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