English Dictionary

warming pan

名詞

古風 比喩的用法

A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed. / (figuratively, dated) A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over.

日本語の意味

生燃炭を入れた蓋付きの金属製パン。長い柄が付いており、火を保った炭で寝床を温めるために使用される器具。 / （比喩的に、時代遅れの表現）別の人物が後任として来るまでの間、ある役割や状況を一時的に保持するための人物。

She carried the warming pan across the cold corridor to heat the sheets before bed.

彼女は寝る前にシーツを温めるため、長い柄の付いた蓋付きの金属製のベッドウォーマー（炭火を入れる器具）を寒い廊下を渡って運んだ。

意味（1）

A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.

Good / Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and do the / office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.

意味（2）

(figuratively, dated) A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over.

[…] who speedily installed his Son […] into the office of Collector of Taxes, as a warming-pan, or locum tenens, till his Father-in-Law's twelvemonths of mock-heroic dignity had expired—or he should think proper to resume the Collectorship.

warming pans （ plural ）