1796, from Blarney Stone (which is said to make a persuasive flatterer of any who kiss it), in a castle near Cork, Ireland. As Bartlett explains it, the reason is the difficulty of the feat of kissing the stone where it sits high up in the battlement: "to have ascended it, was proof of perseverence, courage, and agility, whereof many are supposed to claim the honor who never achieved the adventure." So to have kissed the Blarney Stone came to mean "to tell wonderful tales" ["Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]. The word reached wide currency through Lady Blarney, the smooth-talking flatterer in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield" (1766). As a verb from 1803.
雙語例句
1. I want none of your blarney.
我不要你們奉承.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
2. The Irish castle now is famous Blarney stone.
這愛爾蘭城堡的Blarney石頭 現(xiàn)在很有名(被稱為巧言石).
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
3. He gave her some blarney about why he was late.
他對她說了一些鬼話來解釋他遲到的原因.
來自辭典例句
4. He is full of blarney.
他滿口胡言.
來自辭典例句
5. Laday Blarney was particularly attached to Olivia.