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单词 to wear to a shadow
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to wear (oneself or another) to a shadow
f. Used hyperbolically to designate a person extremely emaciated or feeble. Frequently in to wear (oneself or another) to a shadow.
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1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. C3 This tragicall discourse of fortune so daunted them, as they went like shadowes, not men.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 11 Great numbers of miserable and pitiful ghosts or rather shadowes of men.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Cc3v All were faire knights, and goodly well beseene, But to faire Britomart they all but shadowes beene.
1773 Life N. Frowde 8 I hardly eat or drank, and became a perfect Shadow.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. ii. 34 He withered..into the shadow of himself.
1840 C. Dickens Let. ?7 Apr. (1969) II. 51 Commend me to him though he does wear me to a shadow.
1847 C. M. Yonge Scenes & Characters xviii. 236 And poor Lily wearing herself to a shadow, in vain attempts to mend matters.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 176 A stranger, by want to a shadow worn.
1977 Grimsby Evening Tel. 14 May 1/6 He was wearing himself to a shadow touring the country and Holland and Sweden trying to get new contracts.
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