Turnips
[tɜ:nɪps]
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To see turnips growing, denotes that your prospects will brighten, and that you will be much elated over your success. To eat them is a sign of ill health. To pull them up, denotes that you will improve your opportunities and your fortune thereby. To eat turnip greens, is a sign of bitter disappointment. Turnip seed is a sign of future advancement. For a young woman to sow turnip seed, foretells that she will inherit good property, and win a handsome husband.
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Examples
- I first become aware of myself down in Essex, a thieving turnips for my living. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I dined with the King yesterday, and we had neck of mutton and turnips. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The sight of those fields of stubble and turnips, now his own, gave him many secret joys. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But he now reclined on his settle, taking very little notice of me, and talking principally about turnips. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The greengrocer and his wife then arranged upon the table a boiled leg of mutton, hot, with caper sauce, turnips, and potatoes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It has been probably in this manner that the introduction of clover, turnips, carrots, cabbages, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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