winged words

winged words

Very eloquent, meaningful, and impactful speech. In his address before congress, the president spoke with winged words about the need for the country to unite in its fight against tyranny and evil.
See also: winged, word
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

winged words

highly significant or apposite words. literary
The image, taken from Homer 's Iliad, is of the words travelling as directly as arrows to their intended target.
See also: winged, word
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • pause for effect
  • the thin edge of the wedge
  • thin edge of the wedge
  • thin edge of the wedge, the
  • (important) milestone in (one's) life
  • important
  • milestone
  • milestone in life
  • pen is mightier than the sword
  • the pen is mightier than the sword
References in classic literature
And mighty Heracles was glad in heart and smiled, for the other's words pleased him well, and he answered him with winged words:
327-337) Then the goddess grey-eyed Athene came near them and spoke winged words, encouraging them: `Hail, offspring of far-famed Lynceus!
443-449) But Athene the daughter of aegis-bearing Zeus came to meet Ares, wearing the dark aegis, and she looked at him with an angry frown and spoke winged words to him.
It was impossible to avoid the feeling which the prophet's winged words had fanned, that here was a sullen, professional suspecter of men overwhelmed by a prouder and purer spirit of natural liberty and health.
"Worthy Prince," said Polynesia, keeping very still so Bumpo couldn't see her, "thou sayest winged words of truth.
(38.) Nyenhuis, Myth and the Creative Process, 46-47, 54; and Ovid, Ars Amandi, quoted in Boitani, Winged Words, 33).
Six titles were shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2019 and included: Building Anglo-Saxon England by John Blair; Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott; Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson by Margarette Lincoln; Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis; and Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor.
The trajectory of his winged words provides a case study in the wear and tear brought about by too frequent a misuse of quotation.
Homer's winged words; the evolution of early Greek epic diction in the light of oral theory.
claiming here through the attribute of winged words, it would be
/ Dictate swift winged words, & fear not / To unfold your dark visions of torment.
You know the epithet, Winged Words, which Homer gives them, and a Syrian poet imagines them as a species of bird, those fleeting creatures escaping the memory all too rapidly unless they are netted in writing."
One of his 407 influences according to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Where Are My Winged Words?' 254 epigrams comprise book 8 of the Greek Anthology.
Winged Words presented poets with whom we are familiar, including Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Jean Ingelow.
Chandra Rajan, a teacher of English literature, and the author of Winged Words (an anthology of poetry from Jonson to Eliot) and a book of poems, Re-visions, has produced a very readable-and affordable-translation of Kalidasa's works.