To

(1) (to rhyme with do). To be compared to; comparable to. Thus, Sir Thomas Browne (Religio Medici) says: “There is no torture to the rack of a disease” (p. 69, 20); and again, “No reproach to the scandal of a story.” And Shakespeare says:—

“There is no woe to his correction,

Nor to his service no such joy on earth.”

Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 4.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.