Not quite the thing today - few young women would want their eyes compared with fishponds (or their noses with towers) - but it struck a chord with Charles-Augustin Saint-Beuve. The origin is the Bible, specifically Chapter 7, Verse 4 of the Song of Solomon, in which Solomon is extolling the beauty of his beloved: “Thy neck is as a tower of ivory thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus”. In this instance, I can give you literal chapter and verse on its origin, but the first half of your question is still causing me to scratch my head a bit. "Each member of society must be ever attentive to his social surroundings - he must avoid shutting himself up in his own peculiar character as a philosopher in his ivory tower.Q From Cecil A Oberbeck, New York: Why is the tower in ivory tower ivory? What are the origins of this expression?Ī Usually I can explain the meaning of an expression well enough, but have a lot of trouble finding out where it came from. The relative lateness of the first uses of the phrase (below) tend to argue against that derivation. This may be in allusion to the famous Hawksmoor Towers of Oxford University's All Souls' College, which are ivory in colour (or at least, they were when they were built in 1716). The contemporary figurative meaning is of a place of unworldly isolation. Thy neck is as a tower of ivory thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. The first mention of ivory towers is in the Bible, Song of Solomon 7:4 (King James Version): That guy sucks!" "Yeah he's on at least two Ivory Towers.Ī state of sheltered and unworldly intellectual isolation. When necessary a person can make use of doubling the amount of Ivory Towers a person is on top of. People who fit this generally are in danger of falling into a whirlpool of their own douche. Used to describe someone who believes they are better than people when they are not. Person 2: "Well I've never played the piano before but I'd probably buy one just to have an ivory tower on it." Person 1: "What would you do if you won $10,000?" She performs a blow job on one man while being penetrated doggy-style by the other man. All three participants are positioned on a closed grand piano with the woman inbetween the two men. This threesome is made up of two men and one woman. "He needs to get out of his ivory tower and put his feet on the ground."Īn ivory tower is an Eiffel Tower style threesome that occurs on top of a grand piano. Let those scholars criticize our beliefs from their ivory tower we all know how the world really works. Bootron completely PWND Noodle in Ivory Tower last night.Ī disparaging term that refers to elitist detachment from, and especially criticism of the everyday world, or of common sense and beliefs. Originates from the way Bootron looks down at Noodle from atop the scoreboard (his figurative "ivory tower") after pwning him badly on this particular level.
Hey have you seen Ivory Towers this weekend? The bitch was levelling it!Ī beautiful and challenging map in the video game "Halo 2". Hottest Lady Gaga Impersonator in toronto.
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