| 单词 | dead against |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead against 3. Directly, straight. dead against: literal in a direction exactly opposite to one's course (so dead on end); figurative (in a way) directly or utterly opposed to. (Cf. A. 31d.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [adverb] > straight or due rightOE rightlyOE evenc1300 plata1450 plain1509 straight1512 directly1513 fulla1529 flat1531 due?1574 dead1800 slap1829 plunk1866 squarely1883 1800 C. Sturt in Naval Chron. 4 394 Carrying me dead upon the Shambles. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 7 We continued running dead before the wind. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxiii. 126 The wind and rain being dead against me. 1872 W. H. Dixon W. Penn (rev. ed.) ix. 77 The councillors were dead against his prayer. 1875 J. C. Wilcocks Sea Fisherman 109 Observing..that..the wind was dead on end, and the sail ‘would not be a ha'porth of good’. < as lemmas |
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