simon legree
西蒙·莱格里
Definitions
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- : the brutal plantation owner in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin who abuses and murders several enslaved people.
- : any harsh, merciless master: Our math teacher is a Simon Legree.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
In Psycho a psychiatrist (the young Simon Oakland) tells us in clinical terms what we've seen.
Those in the race—Senator Paul Simon, Rep. Dick Gephardt, Rev. Jesse Jackson—were far behind.
The coup came just months after Simon revealed he had beaten throat cancer.
Simon did not expect to inherit, and in a way he never really did.
The story of Alstory Simon has all the scope and scale, the cruel reversals, and pointless waste of proper tragedy.
Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life propped up the house, and in his days fortified the temple.
We have the cylinder and ends home from Polgooth, and my cousin Simon Vivian is making the tubes.
Advancing on foot, the Scots planted their ladders unperceived and scaled the wall at the point where Simon was in charge.
Probably, it is just a piece of 'Folly'; yet in other things Simon Waterman had the reputation of being a sane, sensible man.
The first vessel adapted to these purposes was the “Argonaut,” built by Simon Lake in 1894.