英语词汇“your staff stands next the door”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†d. your (also his, etc.) staff stands next the door and variants: you (he, etc.) will be the next to depart; chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts suggesting the specified person will be next to experience a misfortune. Obsolete.With reference to a staff or walking stick being placed close to a doorway in readiness for a person's departure.

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the world > time > frequency > [verb (intransitive)] > it is one's turn next

(one's) staff stands next the door1548

the ball is in a person's court1956

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xiii The Prouerbe that sayth, when thy neighboures house is a fyer, thy staffe standeth nexte the dore.

1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 96 Neighbours and freindes if you suffer mee to sustaine this iniury, assure your selues your staffe standeth next to the dore.

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. iii. 152/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I For when the lands of colleges be gone, it shall be hard to saie, whose staffe shall stand next the doore.

1626 J. E. Winding-sheet 2 Wee haue seene..these younger then our selues goe before on this way, whose staffe standeth next the doore wee know not.

单词	your staff stands next the door
释义	> as lemmas your (also his, etc.) staff stands next the door †d. your (also his, etc.) staff stands next the door and variants: you (he, etc.) will be the next to depart; chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts suggesting the specified person will be next to experience a misfortune. Obsolete.With reference to a staff or walking stick being placed close to a doorway in readiness for a person's departure. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [verb (intransitive)] > it is one's turn next (one's) staff stands next the door1548 the ball is in a person's court1956 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xiii The Prouerbe that sayth, when thy neighboures house is a fyer, thy staffe standeth nexte the dore. 1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 96 Neighbours and freindes if you suffer mee to sustaine this iniury, assure your selues your staffe standeth next to the dore. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. iii. 152/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I For when the lands of colleges be gone, it shall be hard to saie, whose staffe shall stand next the doore. 1626 J. E. Winding-sheet 2 Wee haue seene..these younger then our selues goe before on this way, whose staffe standeth next the doore wee know not. extracted from staffn.¹ < as lemmas
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