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burn bread
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/01/27 23:01 UTC 版)
語源
From the idea that burning bread brings bad luck or is indicative of unfortunate things to come.
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動詞
burn bread (third-person singular simple present burns bread, present participle burning bread, simple past and past participle burned bread or burnt bread)
- (African-American Vernacular, idiomatic, often followed by on) To cause something unfortunate to happen to (someone) by mentioning it; to jinx something for (someone).
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2006, Tha Twinz, Crime Pays?: The First of a Trilogy, Bronx, NY: Twinz Publishing, →ISBN, page 113:
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“Si, I'll set up the meeting. I want you plugged in with the Cubans. Just in case something was to ever happen to me.”
Rico shot his brother a scornful. “Listen, I got no problem wit' none a dat shit you talking, but I ain't trying' hear dat' just in case something happen' to you bullshit … you need to stop talking dat stupid shit fo'real. You only burnin' bread on yourself.”
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2020, Larry Washington, Insanity with a Twist, ebook edition, Xlibris, →ISBN, page unknown:
参照
- ^ Annie Weston Whitney, Caroline Canfield Bullock, editors (1925), “Omens: Good or Bad Luck”, in Folk-lore from Maryland (Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society), volume 18, New York: American Folk-lore Society, page 18: “276. It is bad luck to burn bread.”
- ^ Harry Middleton Hyatt, editor (1935), Folk-lore from Adams County, Illinois (Memoirs of the Alma Egan Hyatt Foundation), New York, pages 360, 397:
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7164. If a girl burns her bread while baking, she will have a shiftless husband. 7165. To burn bread while baking foretells that your marriage will be unhappy. […] 7963. If you burn bread when baking it, you will go hungry or come to want before you die. 7964. You commit a sin when you burn bread while baking.
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- ^ Steve Roud (2003) “bread: burning”, in Jennifer Westwood, editor, The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland, published 2006, →ISBN, page 46: “It was regarded as particularly unlucky, even evil, to burn bread. Even crumbs were included in the prohibition:”
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