| 单词 | to turn one's face to the wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto turn one's face to the wall P7. to turn one's face to the wall: said of a person on his deathbed conscious of the approach of the end (?after 2 Kings 20:2, Isaiah 38:2). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dying to have one foot in the (also his, etc.) grave?1483 to draw on1484 to gasp up the ghost1577 gore1577 to turn one's face to the wall1579 to gasp one's last1603 groan1642 not to be long for this world1665 strugglea1674 to falter forth or out1814 to sprawl one's last1837 1579 in J. G. Nichols Narr. Reformation (1859) (Camden) 35 He turned his face to the walle in the sayd belfry; and so after his prayers sleapte swheetly in the Lorde. 16.. Barbara Allen's Cruelty ix, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1886) II. iv. 277 He turnd his face unto the wall, And death came creeping to him. 1856 C. Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. I. xxi. 304 He [Henry II] turned his face to the wall, and exclaimed, ‘Let every thing go as it will’. [Cf. Girald. Cambrens. (Rolls) VIII. 295 iterum se lecto reclinans faciemque suam ad parietem vertens.] 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer iii. 38 He would turn his face to the wall, and die with that word unsaid. < as lemmas |
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