Captain Swan
The ship of characters Emma Swan and Killian Jones from the television series Once Upon a Time.
Swans · Thiên nga 14
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Swan Queen
The ship of characters Emma Swan and Regina Mills from the television series Once Upon a Time.
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(noun) mute swan (Cygnus olor)
all your swans are geese
All your fine Eromises or expectations have proved illacious. "Hope told a flattering tale." The converse, AH your geese are swans, means all your children are paragons, and whatever you do is in your own eyes superlative work.
Dircsean Swan
Pindar; so called from Dirce, a fountain in the neighbourhood of Thebes, the poet's birthplace (518-442 B.C.). The fountain is named from Dirce, who was put to death by the sons of Antiope for her brutal treatment of their mother, and was changed into the spring by Bacchus.
every man thinks his own geese swans
Everyone thinks their own things are the best
his geese are swans
He sees-things in too rosy a light, is too pleased with his own doings and his own possessions.
swan song
A final performance or act before retirement or death
swan song
The song fabled to be sung by swans at the point of death (see above}; hence, the last work of a poet, composer, etc.
The Order of the Swan
An order of knight- hood instituted by Frederick II of Branden- burg in 1440 (and shortly after in Cleves) in honour of the Lohengrin legend. It died out in the 16th century, but it is still commemorated in our White Swan public-house sign, which was first used in honour of Anne of Cleves, one of the wives of Henry VIII. The badge was a silver swan surmounted by an image of the Virgin.
The Swan of Avon
Shakespeare; so called by Ben Jonson in allusion to his birthplace,
The Swan with Two Necks
The emblem of the Vintners' Company, and an old tavern sign. Necks is a corruption of Nicks.
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(noun) wild goose
to swan
A word of doubtful origin much used in N.W. Europe m World War II. It denoted taking a vehicle off for a drive for one's own amusement when off duty. It came to be applied to any apparently aimless move- ments, e.g. one who drove his tank about without apparent purpose might be described as "swanning about the battlefield.