单词 | bird has flown, the |
释义 | bird has flown, theThe individual sought has gone away, as in Jean hoped to meet her editor at long last, but when she arrived the bird had flown. This idiom has been used for an escaped prisoner, and more generally, as in 1655 by William Gurnall (The Christian in Complete Armour): “Man ... knows not his time ... he comes when the bird is flown.” [Mid-1600s] Words nearby bird has flown, theThe best things in life are free, Big Apple, the, the bigger they come, The bigger they come, the harder they fall, the Big Three, bird has flown, the, Birds, The, birds and the bees, the, Birth of a Nation, The, The Birth of Venus, Black Iris, The The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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