英语词汇“clip someone's wings”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	clip someone's wings
释义	clip someone's wings Restrain or reduce someone's freedom, as in Hiding his car keys—you're really clipping his wings. This metaphor for clipping a bird's wings to prevent its flying away dates from ancient Roman times. Christopher Marlowe used it in The Massacre at Paris (1590): “Away to prison with him, I'll clip his wings.” Words nearby clip someone's wings clippety-clop, clippie, clipping, clipshears, clipsheet, clip someone's wings, clipt, clique, cliquey, cliquish, clishmaclaver 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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clip someone's wings