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词组 hostage
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hostage

a hostage to fortune an act, commitment, or remark which is regarded as unwise because it invites trouble or could prove difficult to live up to.

☞ The original hostages to fortune were a man's family, the allusion being to Francis Bacon's essay on marriage (1625): 'He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune'.

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