| 词汇 | out-herod herod |
| 词源 | out-Herod Herod. Shakespeare used this in Hamlet: “It out- Herods Herod: pray you avoid it,” Hamlet says to the actors. The reference is to a king infamous for his barbaric cruelty. Herodes or Herod, King of Judea in 4 b.c., ordered all Bethle- hem’s infants to be killed (Matt. 2:16). The expression means, of course, to outdo the worst tyrant in wickedness and violence. |
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