Ailing song
ailing
[ahy-ling] /ˈaɪˈlɪŋ/ (show ipa), .
qingling
[ching-ling] /ˈtʃɪŋˈlɪŋ/ (show ipa), .
meiling
[mey-ling] /ˈmeɪˈlɪŋ/ (show ipa), .
ziwen
[zœ-wuhn] /ˈzœˈwʌn/ (show ipa), .
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noun
a piece of music, usually employing a verbal text, composed for the voice, esp one intended for performance by a soloist
the whole repertory of such pieces
(as modifier): a song book
poetical composition; poetry
the characteristic tuneful call or sound made by certain birds or insects
the act or process of singing: they raised their voices in song
for a song, at a bargain price
(brit, informal) on song, performing at peak efficiency or ability
noun
the pinyin transliteration of the chinese name for sung
n.
old english sang “voice, song, art of singing; metrical composition adapted for singing, psalm, poem,” from proto-germanic -sangwaz (cf. old norse söngr, norwegian song, swedish sång, old saxon, danish, old frisian, old high german, german sang, middle dutch sanc, dutch zang, gothic saggws), from pie -songwh-o- “singing, song,” from -sengwh- “to sing, make an incantation” (see sing (v.)).
phrase for a song “for a trifle, for little or nothing” is from “all’s well” iii.ii.9 (the identical image, por du son, is in old french. with a song in (one’s) heart “feeling joy” is first attested 1930 in lorenz hart’s lyric. song and dance as a form of vaudeville act is attested from 1872; figurative sense of “rigmarole” is from 1895.
noun phrase
something or someone bedraggled, perhaps due to weather (1928+)
related terms
like something the cat dragged in
in addition to the idiom beginning with
song
also see:
for a song
swan song
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