fourscore | Idiomator

Meaning: (nowarchaic)Eighty.c.1596–1598(date written),William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward]Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene i],page173:Thou ſtick'ſt a dagger in me, I ſhall neuer ſee my gold againe,foureſcoreducats at aſitting,foureſcoreducats.1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Numbers4:48:Euen thoſe that were numbꝛed of them, were eight thouſand, and fiue hundꝛed, andfoureſcoꝛe.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, inThe Abbot.[…], volume III, Edinburgh:[…][James Ballantyne & Co.] forLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,[…]; and forArchibald Constable and Company, andJohn Ballantyne,[…],→OCLC,page353:“I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man offourscore?—and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.”1863November 19,Abraham Lincoln,Dedicatory Remarks(Gettysburg Address)‎[1], nearSoldiers' National Cemetery,→LCCN,Bliss copy, page 1:Four scoreand seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.1914,Saki, ‘The Cobweb’,Beasts and Superbeasts:Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearlyfourscoreyears.; (idiomatic)Afull-lengthlife, reckoned as eightyyears.Synonym:(dated, of biblical origin)three score and ten1986November 24,Susan Sontag, “The Way We Live Now”, inThe New Yorker‎[2]:[…]I know every life is equally sacred, but that is a thought, another thought, I mean, all these valuable people who aren’t going to have their normalfourscoreas it is now, these people aren’t going to be replaced, and it’s such a loss to the culture.

Examples:

EN: And though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years yet is their strength then but labor and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone.
ES: Hay algunos los mas fuertes que llegan a los ochenta pero con esfuerzos y penas tan grandes el tiempo pasa rápido y nosotros nos vamos.
EN: "Lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old".
ES: "Hoy cumplo 85 años". Seis.
EN: And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years yet is there strength, labor and sorrow.
ES: Y si por razones de fuerza son ochenta años aun así hay fuerza, trabajo y dolor.
EN: "But at fourscore," that's you and me,
ES: "Pero a los ochenta", ésos somos nosotros,
EN: I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less.
ES: Soy un pobre y débil anciano, he cumplido mis 80 años, ni un día menos,
EN: I've been trying all day to draw some... profound conclusion about living fourscore years.
ES: Llevo todo el día intentando llegar... a una profunda conclusión sobre vivir 8 décadas.
EN: O, my good lord, I have been your tenant and your father's tenant, these fourscore years.
ES: Oh, mi buen señor, he sido pechero vuestro y de vuestro padre durante estos 80 años.
EN: And fourscore and seven tables ago...
ES: Y ochenta y siete tablas atrás...
EN: And fourscore and seven years ago, our forefathers did something. I don't know what.
ES: Y hace 87 años, nuestros antepasados hicieron algo.
EN: - [ Groans ] Fourscore and four, fourscore and five... fourscore and six. fourscore and seven paces.
ES: Ochenta y cuatro, ochenta y cinco ochenta y seis, ochenta y siete pasos.
ES: Ochenta y cuatro, ochenta y cinco ochenta y seis, ochenta y siete pasos.
ES: Ochenta y cuatro, ochenta y cinco ochenta y seis, ochenta y siete pasos.
EN: From 1 7 years till now almost fourscore, here lived I but now live here no more.
ES: Desde los 17 hasta ahora casi 80, viví aquí pero ya no vivo más aquí.
EN: But at fourscore it is too late a week.
ES: Pero a los 80 es demasiado tarde.
EN: What's "fourscore"?
ES: ¿Qué son cuatro veintenas?
EN: Here's your fourscore, extra bacon.
ES: Tu FourScore, con tocino extra.
EN: And although men be so strong that they come to fourscore years...' And so on and so forth.
ES: Y aunque los hombres sean tan fuertes que lleguen a la edad de ochenta años... y así sucesivamente y así sucesivamente.

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