in a foam

prepositional phrase

Foaming at the mouth.

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. datedidiomaticliteraryFoaming at the mouth.

    Horſe and man were in a foam.

    1792, Samuel Richardson, The History of Clarissa Harlowe, in a Series of Letters, Volume 6, page 109
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    But that Poet was always in a foam at his ſetting out, even before the Motion of the Race had warm'd him.

    1716, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, John Dryden, Richard Graham, Roger de Piles, The Art of Painting, page 54

    Yes, the ſecond time he ſaid, that he met the King's guards that were come back all in a foam

    1730, Sollom Emlyn, Thomas Salmon (contributors), A Complete Collection of State-trials, and Proceedings for High-treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours: 1685-1696, page 560

    while the horses and mares were all in a foam, and scarcely able to breathe;

    1842, J.S. Redfield (publisher), Two Hundred Pictorial Illustrations of the Holy Bible ... Compiled Principally from the Notes to the London Pictorial Bible. Third Series, page 172
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