singe one's wings

短语

损害自己的名誉(或利益)

发音

AU

词形变化

singed one's wings singeing one's wings singes one's wings 三单 singes one's wings singeing one's wings 现在分词 singed one's wings 过去式 singed one's wings 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To sustain harm, loss or ruin by doing some risky or perilous deed.

    习语

词源

Allusion to the tragic story from Hellenic mythology, where Icarus along with his father Daedalus befled the Cretan labyrinth of Knossos by flying with wings that his father had made from feathers and wax. Daedalus forewarned his son of flying neither too low nor too high, that the sea's dampness not clog his wings nor the sun's heat melt them; but Icarus unheeding his father's bidding flew too near to the sun, thereby melting the wax in his wings: so he tumbled out of the sky and fell into the Aegean Sea where he drowned.

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