英语词汇“to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tile”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†b. Prov. to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tile (= Latin laterem lavare), to labour in vain. Cf. 3d.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain

to lose or spill one's whilec1175

to speak to the windc1330

tinec1330

to beat the windc1375

lose?a1513

to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529

to lose (one's) oil1548

to plough the sand (also sands)a1565

to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581

to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581

to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600

to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616

to bark against (or at) the moona1641

dead horse1640

to cast stones against the wind1657

dry-ditcha1670

baffle1860

to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933

a1600 R. Hooker Learned Disc. (1612) 22 But we wash a wall of lome; we labor in vaine.

a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) iii. v. 41 We have, As learned Authours utter, washd a Tile.

1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 263 I wish I could make him feel as he ought, but one may as well wash a brick.

单词	to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tile
释义	> as lemmas to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tile †b. Prov. to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tile (= Latin laterem lavare), to labour in vain. Cf. 3d. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain to lose or spill one's whilec1175 to speak to the windc1330 tinec1330 to beat the windc1375 lose?a1513 to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529 to lose (one's) oil1548 to plough the sand (also sands)a1565 to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581 to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581 to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600 to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616 to bark against (or at) the moona1641 dead horse1640 to cast stones against the wind1657 dry-ditcha1670 baffle1860 to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933 a1600 R. Hooker Learned Disc. (1612) 22 But we wash a wall of lome; we labor in vaine. a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) iii. v. 41 We have, As learned Authours utter, washd a Tile. View more context for this quotation 1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 263 I wish I could make him feel as he ought, but one may as well wash a brick. extracted from washv. < as lemmas
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