词汇 | bed of pain |
词源 | bed of pain. One’s deathbed: “I’m but a poor old woman ly- ing in her bed of pain.” To take to one’s bed is to go to bed be- cause one is very ill or dying. Both phrases are at least two cen- turies old. |
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