livers and lights

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Offal; The internal organs of an animal, especially when used as food. UK,plural,plural-only
    — Helpless, the riders are borne into the Marsh, or a freshwater lake or even, so it is said in Grïmnørsland, the salt sea. After the waters close over their heads they are not seen again, although sometimes their livers and lights are found cast up on the shore.
  2. Innards; entrails. broadly,plural,plural-only
    — ... for I forgot he was old King Lear and a drownded A-rab all in one, and it most scared the livers and lights out of me.

词源

From the most prominent organs, the liver and the lights (lungs); probably influenced by alliteration.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary