warming pan

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.
    — Good Bardolfe / Put thy noſe betweene the ſheetes, and do the office of a warming pan.
  2. A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over. dated,figuratively
    — […] who speedily installed his Son […] into the office of Collector of Taxes, as a warming-pan, or locum tenens, till his Father-in-Law's twelvemonths of mock-heroic dignity had expired—or he should think proper to resume the Collectorship.

词形变化

warming pans plural
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