| 词汇 | darken someone's door |
| 释义 | Idiom darken someone's door Theme: VISITING [for an unwelcome person] to come to someone's door seeking entry. (As if the visitor were casting a shadow on the door. Formal, or even jocular.)Who is this who has come to darken my door?Is that you, John, darkening my door again? I thought you were out of town.The heroine of the drama told the villain never to darken her door again.She touched the back of her hand to her forehead and said, "Go and never darken my door again!" darken (one's) doorTo come to one's home as an unwelcome visitor. I made sure he'll never dark our door again. darken someone's doorCome unwanted to someone's home, as in I told him to get out and never darken my door again. The verb darken here refers to casting one's shadow across the threshold, a word that occasionally was substituted for door. As an imperative, the expression is associated with Victorian melodrama, where someone (usually a young woman or man) is thrown out of the parental home for some misdeed, but it is actually much older. Benjamin Franklin used it in The Busybody (1729): "I am afraid she would resent it so as never to darken my doors again." |
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