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undertoad
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2017/01/03 08:47 UTC 版)
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From John Irving's 1978 novel The World According to Garp, in which the title character's son Walt mishears warnings about the undertow at the beach as warnings about an "under toad", causing the title character to subsequently use the phrase "under toad" to refer to the omnipresent threat of disaster that lies beneath the surface of everyday life.
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undertoad (複数形 undertoads)
- An underlying threat of disaster beneath the surface of everyday life.
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1990, Fortnight - Issues 280-290, page 21:
- But the European framework has, as John Irving would say, 'an undertoad'. Kings in Conflict and Ireland's Fate both underscore the painful conclusion that Ireland, her rights and wrongs, was of little or no consequence within what was seen by...
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2003, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Superprose:
- ...the wish-delight of pure belief, unseasoned faith in being true, no cynicism to ease the pain, you said that, tapping-in, as it were, and the visible monologue says, go on, and fire the fall, the undertoad reciting the quick shots are your cards and letters imitating scorn or envy or distrust not present, but pure panic culls retreat from your coins today, today the crossing over into birthdays, into the new cycle...
- A mythical monster that lurks underwater to catch unwary swimmers; a personification of an undertow.
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