单词 | toast-and-watered |
释义 | > as lemmastoast-and-watered b. Coupled with the liquid in which the toast is immersed, as ale and toast, toast and ale, toast and water; whence toast-and-watered adj., confined to a diet of toast and water. ΚΠ 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. H2, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) How I drunke vp my grandames ale and toste.] 1693 J. Bancroft Henry II Prol. sig. A3v Many a Night o'er Toast and Ale. 1778 F. Burney Let. Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 112 Our Biscuits & Toast & Water,—which makes the Streatham supper. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 313 I then directed her to live on toast and water exclusively. 1810 Ld. Byron Let. 3 Oct. (1973) II. 19 What can a helpless, feverish, toast and watered poor wretch do? 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xliv. 277 Lunch was on the table—the familiar commons, the familiar toast-and-water. < as lemmas |
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