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purple patch (複数形 purple patches)
- A period of excellent performance where nearly everything seems to go right, contrasting with a lower general level of performance.
- 1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Dawn Comes, and My Uncle Appears in a New Silk Hat”, in Tono-Bungay […], book II (The Rise of Tono-Bungay), Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., →OCLC:
- He came with a disconcerting black-eye that he wouldn’t explain. “Not so much a black-eye,” he said, “as the aftermath of a purple patch.... What’s your difficulty?”
- 2017 May 14, Phil Mongredien, “Paul Weller: A Kind Revolution review – rich in warmth and optimism”, in The Observer[1], →ISSN:
- Paul Weller has been in a relentlessly innovative purple patch since 2008’s 22 Dreams, which is still surprising given the workmanlike nature of his previous decade’s output.
- 2021 September 6, Kieran Pender, “Jack Haig defies odds to continue Grand Tour purple patch for Australian cyclists”, in The Guardian[3], →ISSN:
- Haig’s success in Spain continues a purple patch for Australian road cycling. Before 2020, no Australian had stood on a Grand Tour podium since Evans’ retirement.
- (originally) An ornate or elaborate section of a written work; a patch of purple prose.
- 1908, Harold Edgeworth Butler, Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal[4]:
- The poet had continually to be performing acrobatic feats, now of rhetoric or epigram, now of learning, or again in the description of blood-curdling horrors, monstrous deaths and prodigious sorceries. Each work was overloaded with sententiae and purple patches.
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- Gary Martin (1997–), “Purple patch”, in The Phrase Finder.
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