close one's eyes and think of England

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To accept one's duty patriotically, particularly (idiomatic, euphemistic) to endure sex (sexual activity) under a concept of sex as solely a marital and reproductive duty.
    — I am happy now that Charles calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs and think of England.

词形变化

closes one's eyes and thinks of England present,singular,third-person closing one's eyes and thinking of England participle,present closed one's eyes and thought of England participle,past closed one's eyes and thought of England past shut one's eyes and think of England alternative lie back and think of England alternative think of England alternative

词源

Supposedly derived from the journal of Alice Marion Mills in 1912, Lady Hillingdon, now lost. Later apocryphally connected to Lucy Baldwin, wife of Prime Minister Baldwin, and Queen Victoria or described as advice given to Victorian era brides-to-be. First popularized by the translation in 1955 of Pierre Daninos's Les Carnets du Major Thompson (1954), a French satire on upper class British culture.
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