| 词组 | big with child |
| 释义 | big with childbig with childeuphemism Very visibly pregnant, often because the baby's due date is near. I am so big with child right now, but at least the baby is due next week. See also: big, child Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
References in classic literature I left my poor wife big with child, and accepted an advantageous offer made me to be captain of the Adventurer, a stout merchantman of 350 tons: for I understood navigation well, and being grown weary of a surgeon's employment at sea, which, however, I could exercise upon occasion, I took a skilful young man of that calling, one Robert Purefoy, into my ship. Gullivers Travels At last she showed me a prize, and this was a young lady big with child, who had a charming watch. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders She was then big with child. She shared, with our actor friends Dodo Crisol-may he also rest in peace-and Gigi Duenas, a big four-poster bed, handcrafted by Bob Feleo. My friend Monica Feria-of the white-as-snow undies, erotic poetry and 'glad grace' |
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