“curtain、lecture”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

curtain-lecture

释义

ˈcurtain-ˈlecture
‘A reproof given by a wife to her husband in bed’ (Johnson).
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 5 Often have you heard how much a superstitious wife, by her curtain lectures, hath wrought upon her Christian husband.1660Hickeringill Jamaica (1661) 85, I am not awed..with the dreadfull Catechisme of a Curtain Lecture.1710Addison Tatler No. 243 ⁋4 He was then lying under the Discipline of a Curtain-Lecture.1846D. Jerrold (title), Mrs. Caudle's Curtain-lectures.1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. iii. (1876) 233 As confidential as a curtain-lecture.
Hence ˌcurtain-ˈlecture v.
1859G. Meredith R. Feverel iii, No curtain-lecturing with a pipe.

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