英语词汇vicar of bray的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	vicar of bray
词源	Vicar of Bray. A Vicar of Bray is someone who holds onto his office or position no matter who is in power and will go to any length to do so. The term refers to a semi-legendary Vicar of Bray, Berkshire, in England who became twice a Roman Catholic and twice a Protestant under four different monarchs between 1520 and 1560, in the words of one contemporary writer “being resolved, whoever was king, to die Vicar of Bray.”
随便看	as deaf as the mainmast as different as chalk and cheese as drunk as david-s sow as easy as shaking the drops off your john a serpent in one-s bosom as every schoolboy knows a shag on a rock ashes a shrimp short of a barbie asiatic hordes ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country a slice off the old ham as long as grass grows and water runs as mad as ajax as maine goes so goes the nation a small cup of tea as much chance as a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest as one man a son of a bitch-s son of a bitch a sorry sight asparagus aspasia aspen

英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。