a pox onとは 意味・読み方・使い方

間投詞

a pox on

1. (archaic, offensive) To express curses upon (somebody), when irked or wroth, as though wishing someone "a pox".
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

2. (humorous, said alternatively with of) To hell with (abstract または unalive things).
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     A pox of that jest! and I beshrew all shrows.

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     […] A pox of drowning thyself!

同意語

• woe betide, fie upon, to hell with

参照

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