| 释义 |
slings and arrowsUsed with reference to adverse factors or circumstances: the slings and arrows of outrageous critics...- Does the above general definition of this all-important institution of higher learning, to distastefully paraphrase William Shakespeare, suffer from the slings and arrows of outrageous idealism?
- Thirteen years later, the band has survived continual line-up and label changes, weathered the slings and arrows of litigation and ignorance, and all the while managed to further create and define a unique sound.
- In between, of course, came an arsenal of slings and arrows.
With reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet iii. i. 58 See parent entry: sling |