eloquent

wax eloquent

To speak or write (about something) with particularly eloquent language, especially to an ostentatious or performative degree. After his fourth gin and tonic, my father stood up and began waxing eloquent about the importance of family. She never hesitates to wax eloquent about all sorts of social injustices in the world.

wax eloquent

Fig. to speak with eloquence. Perry never passed up a chance to wax eloquent at a banquet.

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Speechlessness that speaks louder than speech. “Often there is eloquence in a silent look,” wrote the Roman poet Ovid in his Artis Amatoriae (The Art of Love), a three-volume how-to text for lovers (ca. 1 b.c.). Cicero, Tasso, and La Rochefoucauld were among the many who echoed the sentiment, although not all in the service of love. In English, the playwright William Congreve said (Old Batchelour, 1693, 2:9), “Even silence may be eloquent in love.” It was already a cliché by the time Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes and Hero-Worship, 1840) wrote, “Silence is more eloquent than words.” A newer synonym, dating from the second half of the 1900s and rapidly becoming a cliché, is deafening silence. It is used especially to refer to a refusal to reply or to make a comment. The Times had it on Aug. 28, 1985: “Conservative and Labour MPS [Members of Parliament] have complained of a ‘deafening silence’ over the affair.” See also actions speak louder than words.

词组	eloquent
释义	eloquent wax eloquent To speak or write (about something) with particularly eloquent language, especially to an ostentatious or performative degree. After his fourth gin and tonic, my father stood up and began waxing eloquent about the importance of family. She never hesitates to wax eloquent about all sorts of social injustices in the world. See also: eloquent, wax Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. wax eloquent Fig. to speak with eloquence. Perry never passed up a chance to wax eloquent at a banquet. See also: eloquent, wax McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. eloquent silence, an Speechlessness that speaks louder than speech. “Often there is eloquence in a silent look,” wrote the Roman poet Ovid in his Artis Amatoriae (The Art of Love), a three-volume how-to text for lovers (ca. 1 b.c.). Cicero, Tasso, and La Rochefoucauld were among the many who echoed the sentiment, although not all in the service of love. In English, the playwright William Congreve said (Old Batchelour, 1693, 2:9), “Even silence may be eloquent in love.” It was already a cliché by the time Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes and Hero-Worship, 1840) wrote, “Silence is more eloquent than words.” A newer synonym, dating from the second half of the 1900s and rapidly becoming a cliché, is deafening silence. It is used especially to refer to a refusal to reply or to make a comment. The Times had it on Aug. 28, 1985: “Conservative and Labour MPS [Members of Parliament] have complained of a ‘deafening silence’ over the affair.” See also actions speak louder than words. See also: eloquent The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: wax eloquent sweetness sweetness and light (all) sweetness and light all sweetness and light would like would like (to have) (something) tonic gin dive gin mill References in classic literature Heaven seemed to have provided a greater number of eloquent men than had appeared at any other period, in order that the people might be fully instructed as to their wrongs and the method of resistance. "But, Grandfather," asked Lawrence, "were there no able and eloquent men in this country who took the part of King George?" Grandfathers Chair "The life and adventures of our charming young clergyman, bear eloquent testimony to the saintly patience of his disposition, under trials which would have overwhelmed an ordinary man. I Say No But though he was taking a holiday now, that is to say, he was doing no writing, he was so used to intellectual activity that he liked to put into concise and eloquent shape the ideas that occurred to him, and liked to have someone to listen to him. Anna Karenina As soon as he had taken his seat, filled with hope and admiration, I rose, and declared that PATRICK HENRY, of revolutionary fame, never made a speech more eloquent in the cause of liberty, than the one we had just listened to from the lips of that hunted fugitive. It is certainly a very remarkable fact, that one of the most efficient advocates of the slave population, now before the public, is a fugitive slave, in the person of FREDERICK DOUGLASS; and that the free colored population of the United States are as ably represented by one of their own number, in the per- son of CHARLES LENOX REMOND, whose eloquent appeals have extorted the highest applause of multi- tudes on both sides of the Atlantic. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave le Comte de la Fere?" said Louise, after breathing that sigh which had revealed so many griefs in its eloquent utterance. At length she caught an eloquent look of her companion's, one of those looks which would convey intelligence to a brick wall. Ten Years Later Had we already exhausted the narrow yet eloquent vocabulary of love? He vowed--oh, in such solemn, such eloquent words!--that his one thought, night and day, should be to prove himself worthy of such love as mine. Law and the Lady Tom and Ned found it difficult to comprehend all the rapid Spanish spoken by their host, but they managed to understand some, and his eloquent gestures made up the rest. Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders But Sandy was radiant; and was going to be eloquent -- but I stopped her, and told her my magic had mis- carried, somehow or other, and she must mount, with all despatch, and we must ride for life. Connecticut Yankee It hushed the eloquent, struck down the powerful, abolished the beautiful and good. Tale Of Two Cities Be a man...The back of the hand has an eloquent function,' he further said. Locsin claps back at netizens critical of his behavior as DFA chief Brittney Cooper, a feminist scholar and professor, sets out to dispel the myth--and reveal the dangers--of white feminism in her second book, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. Eloquent Rage: Black and Intersectional Feminism for "Grown-Ass Women"
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