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CITATIONS EN ANGLAIS AVEC «A DUSTY ANSWER»
Citations et phrases célèbres avec le mot
a dusty answer.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «A DUSTY ANSWER»
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Shorter Slang Dictionary
Since the mid-19th century. dusty answer a bad-tempered, uncooperative reply,
as in to give (sb) a dusty answer, to get a dusty answer. dyke or dike a lesbian.
Adopted from the USA around 1935. dykey or dikey lesbian. Since the late 1930s
.
Paul Beale, Eric Partridge, Rosalind Fergusson, 2003
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
British 6 The source ofthis expression is probably a passage in George
Meredith's Modern Love (1862): 'Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot
for certainties in this our life!' not so dusty (of a person's health or situation) fairly ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
dusty. a dusty answer a curt and unhelpful reply. British The source of this
expression is probably a passage in George Meredith's Modern Love (1862): 'Ah,
what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!' ...
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
DUSTY 'a dusty answer curt rejection of a request; unfriendly refusal When she
requested him to lend her some money, she got a dusty answer. DUTCH Dutch
courage courage that comes from drinking alcohol He always showed his Dutch
...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
184). give (someone) - or get - a dusty answer. To give, or get, 'the rough side of
someone's tongue', a bad-tempered, unco-operative reply: coll.: C.20. 'If he
comes that old flannel with me, he'll jolly soon get a dusty answer, I can tell you!
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England, Their England: Commentaries on English Language and ...
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!— In
tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's
force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To throw that faint thin line
...
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
A dusty answer is a curt and unhelpful reply. The expression comes from the
1862 poem 'Modern Love' by George Meredith: 'Ah, what a dusty answer gets the
soul / When hot for certainties in this our life!' Dutch [LME] From the Middle Ages
up ...
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Wright Morris Territory:
A Treasury of Work
From one, withoutwarning, he intoned— Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hotfor certainty in this our life. Kashperl made no sign. The finger of god
might have written this message on the wall ofhis mind. A dusty answer. Vintage
...
Wright Morris, David Madden, Alicia Christensen, 2011
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Studies in the Book of Job
Legabhey homer. Had Meredith been an authority on the Semitic languages he
might have been suspected of plagiarism when he wrote: — Oh what a dusty
answer gets the soul. [PF 112: Neither "defences" (I.C.C.) nor Stevenson's
seemingly ...
Alfred Guillaume, John F. MacDonald, 1968
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
See also ASHESto ashes, dust to dust, aPECKof dust in March. dusty answer an
unsatisfactory reply; perhaps originally as a quotation from George Meredith's
Modern Love (1862), 'Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for ...
10 ACTUALITÉS CONTENANT LE TERME «A DUSTY ANSWER»
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The Scottish Nationalists Lost the Referendum, So Stop Treating …
... matters (schools, hospitals, fox hunting, you name it) over which English MPs have no control in Scotland – will now receive a dusty answer. «Breitbart News, nov 14»
Galactic roles, a cosmic puzzle and a dusty answer
Giant galaxies are the ones that catch the space enthusiast's eye, with their spiral patterns or cigar-like blobs in images taken with large ... «Skymania News, juil 14»
Dishonourable honours
McMahon made the recommendations but got ''a dusty answer''. Both nominees were rejected by the British and had to settle with ''Sir'' rather ... «Sydney Morning Herald, juin 14»
Cell phone problems are huge market opportunities
Suggest one of the tiny new smart watches to them as a cell phone improvement and you will get a dusty answer. Yet many of them have plenty ... «IDTechEx.com, mars 14»
Why is Nick Clegg letting ME get booed over Lord Rennard questions?
Mr Clegg gave what can only be described as a dusty answer, so all my other inquiries will have to wait until another day. Is it the case that ... «Telegraph.co.uk, janv 14»
Patrick Mercer: An everyday story of deception in Parliament
He could ask a question and get a dusty answer. Or he can table an EDM. None of these consequences will get anywhere at all; the MP and ... «The Independent, juin 13»
NATIONAL CHARACTER
'Ah what a dusty answer finds the soul when hot for certainty in this our life', is a line from Meredith which I loved at University. 'The best lack all ... «The Fortnightly Review, nov 12»
'At my age I don't give a damn what I say'
She “got a dusty answer” for speaking out of context, but she had made her point. Baroness Trumpington is unreformable. When she was in her ... «Telegraph.co.uk, août 12»
Mary Berry: queen of cakes
What does she think when the contestants cry over a cake collapsing in The Great British Bake Off, I ask, expecting a dusty answer. After all ... «Telegraph.co.uk, sept 11»
The Quality of Mercy, By Barry Unsworth
... the mutineers in their prison yard and hoping to enrol them on freedom's side in the matter of the drowned slaves, gets a dusty answer. «The Independent, août 11»
