| 单词 | to weep irish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto weep Irish 2. Phrases. †to weep Irish: to weep unfeelingly, as a professional mourner weeps at an Irish wake. to weep with (or over) an onion: figurative to weep with feigned grief. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > grieve insincerely [verb (intransitive)] to weep Irish1577 to weep with (or over) an onion1577 snivel1691 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande viii. f. 28/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I They follow the dead corpes to the graue with howlyng and barbarous outcries, pitiful in apparaunce, wherof grew, as I suppose, the prouerbe, to weepe Irish [L. Hibernice lacrimari]. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet D iv b Ile make thee to forget Bishops English, and weep Irish. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xii. 247 Surely the Egyptians did not weep-Irish with faigned and mercenary teares. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1305 To weep Irish, or to feign sorrow. < as lemmas |
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