| 词组 | kith and kin |
| 释义 | Idiom kith and kin Theme: FRIENDS friends and relatives; people known to someone. (Fixed order.)I was delighted to find all my kith and kin waiting for me at the airport to welcome me home.I sent cards to my kith and kin, telling them of my arrival. Idiom kith and kin old-fashioned friends and relatives.They wanted to keep alive the memory of their kith and kin who had died in the war. kith and kinFriends and family. We are gathered here, with kith and kin, to celebrate this great union. kith and kinfriends and relatives; people known to someone. I was delighted to find all my kith and kin waiting for me at the airport to welcome me home. I sent cards to my kith and kin, telling them of my arrival. kith and kinFriends and family, as in Everyone was invited, kith and kin as well as distant acquaintances. This expression dates from the 1300s and originally meant "countrymen" ( kith meant "one's native land") and "family members." It gradually took on the present looser sense. kith and kinyour relations.Kith , an Old English word meaning ‘native land’ or ‘countrymen’, is now only used in this phrase, which itself dates back to the late 14th century. The variant kith or kin is also sometimes found. kith and ˈkin(old-fashioned) friends and relatives: He has returned to live in Italy, where he’ll be surrounded by his kith and kin.kith and kinFriends and family. This term is very old indeed, appearing in William Langland’s Piers Ploughman (1377), when kith meant “one’s native land,” and by extension one’s countrymen, and kin meant, as it still does, “members of one’s family.” Presumably the alliteration helped it survive. It became a cliché in the nineteenth century but is much less heard now and may be obsolescent. Ogden Nash played on it in “Family Court” (1930): “One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one’s own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.” |
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