| 单词 |
come-all-ye |
| 释义 |
come-all-ye, -you (See quots.).
1898Eng. Dial. Dict., Come all ye's, old ballads or country songs..Uls[ter]. 1914Joyce Dubliners 35 Street-singers, who sang a come-all-you about O'Donovan Rossa. 1938J. Cary Castle Corner 428 Hanna still sang his ballads, with even more sentiment than before, and when he was almost tearful, he would say, ‘Give me a come-all-you, to promote the flow of the vital juices.’ 1941L. A. G. Strong J. McCormack xvi. 260 He knew ‘Come-all-ye's’—that is, ballads beginning with an invitation to come and listen—with as many as forty or fifty verses. 1965M. Hodgart in Faber Bk. Ballads 21 James Joyce, who describes the nasal whine of the singers of ‘Come-all-you's’, quotes from street-ballads throughout his work. |

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