come home by weeping cross

短语

词形变化

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To return in disappointment, or in a spirit of contrition.

    过时 习语

    1744, Spanish Rhodomontades, Pierre de Bourdeille, tr. John Ozell. This was a fine Rhodomontade, but it fail'd in the Execution: For, making an irruption into Provence, he came home by Weeping-Cross.

词源

From a common English placename indicating the former site of a stone cross.

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