| 单词 | alive and kicking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalive and kicking a. That kicks, in senses of the verb; also in colloquial phrase alive and kicking: indubitably alive; very lively and active. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [adjective] > that kicks winching1525 flinginga1533 kicking1552 yarking1565 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [adjective] > with the foot > kicking kicking1552 spurning1697 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Kyckynge horse. c1610–15 Some Notes before Liues in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 25 The wanton or kicking flesh of yong maydes, she would represse with often or double fastings. 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 272 The Turk..gave him two or three lusty kicks... Our traveller..begged the kicking Mussulman ‘to accept his perfect assurances of high consideration’. c1831 J. R. Planché Olympic Devils in Extravaganzas (1879) I. 71 Plu. Alive? Char. And kicking. 1840 New Monthly Mag. 58 497 He is (as the Irishman says), ‘alive and kicking’. 1847 C. F. Hoffman Let. 23 Jan. 274 I am most glad to hear that you are alive and kicking. 1860 Grandmother's Money I. 124 So I started off to Stamford Street, just to shew that I was alive and kicking. 1890 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 20 Feb. 2/2 A kicking Democratic Senator in Ohio threatens to upset the..apportionment scheme. 1930 R. Lehmann Note in Music 130 He seemed to imply with amusement how particularly alive they were. ‘Father, mother, two young brothers, and sister Clare, all alive and kicking.’ 1966 L. Southworth Felon in Disguise xi. 158 I'd feel happier if I knew Donaldson was alive and kicking. < as lemmas |
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