单词 | cake and pudding |
释义 | > as lemmascake and pudding ΚΠ 1556 J. Old Confession of Catholike Olde Belefe sig. D7 Yet for cake & pudding wolde turne again (like wethercockes) which waye so euer the wynde bloweth, as a man will haue them. 1643 Bk. Pasquils 144 You courted God for caikes and pudding. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 93 He turn'd his coat for cake and pudding. 1749 Charmer: Choice Coll. Songs 92 I but owr justly trow'd Your love was thowless, and that ye For cake and pudding woo'd. 1823 W. Scott Peveril III. iii. 69 And you, Lance,..have no mind to marry for cake and pudding. 1884 J. I. Hillocks Roots & Remedies of London Misery iv, in Hard Battles for Life & Usefulness 342 We hear much about the poor attending meetings more for ‘cake and pudding’ than spiritual food; but who are most to blame, the poor or the sectarians? < as lemmas |
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