| 单词 | to wear the breeches |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wear the breeches a. Hence the phrase, said of a wife, to wear the breeches ( breech obsolete): to assume the authority of the husband; to rule, be ‘master’. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > be or become married woman [verb (intransitive)] > act as a wife > domineer over husband to wear the breeches1568 to wear the trousers1864 to wear (also put on) the pants1898 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 89 As though the good man of the house weare no breeches or that the Graye Mare were the better horse.] 1568 T. Howell Newe Sonets (1879) 151 He is a cokes: and worthy strokes, whose wife the Breeches beare. 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. v. 24 That you might still haue kept your Peticote, and nere haue stolne the Breech from Lancaster. 1600 Maydes Metamorphosis iv. sig. F1 This is leape yeare, Women weare breetches, petticoats are deare. 1606 N. Breton Choice, Chance, & Change sig. D1v She that is master of her husband, must weare the breeches. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xiv. 135 The Affections wear the breeches: and the Female rules. 1807 Salmagundi 20 Mar. 123 The violent inclination she felt to wear the breeches. < as lemmas |
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