英语词汇“die in harness”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. figurative. Working equipments; the conditions, routine, and obligations of regular work. in harness, in the routine of daily work; to die in harness, i.e. in the midst of work.

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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > routine or conditions of work

harness1841

society > occupation and work > work > [adverb] > in routine of daily work

in harness1841

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > as part of ordinary routine > in the routine of daily work

in harness1841

1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond ii In early times, before we were well in harness.

1841 R. W. Emerson Man the Reformer in Dial Apr. 525 He must..take on him the harness of routine and obsequiousness.

1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xvii. 101 Queer pair to run i' harness.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xii. 279 After a holiday, the day on which we resume harness joins on to the day on which we dropped it.

1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) x. vii. 371 The finest intellects have never lived in harness.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xxi. 544 Like most medieval workers they all died in harness.

1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 193 Palmerston..died, as he had lived, in harness, working to the last.

1889 S. Baring-Gould Pennycomequicks II. xviii. 26 If you insist on going into harness at once, in two years I shall be attending your funeral.

单词	die in harness
释义	> as lemmas to die in harness to die game, to maintain a bold and defiant bearing to the last, i.e. like a gamecock; whence by contrast to die dung-hill; to die in one's bed, i.e. of illness or other natural cause, the opposite of which is to die in one's shoes; to die in one's boots or shoes or with one's boots on: to die a violent death, spec. to be hanged; so to die with one's boots off: to have a peaceful or unspectacular death or end; to die in harness, i.e. in full work; and in other similar phrases. to die in the last ditch: see last ditch n. at last adv., adj., and n.⁴ Compounds.extracted from diev.¹ to die in harness b. figurative. Working equipments; the conditions, routine, and obligations of regular work. in harness, in the routine of daily work; to die in harness, i.e. in the midst of work. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > routine or conditions of work harness1841 society > occupation and work > work > [adverb] > in routine of daily work in harness1841 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > as part of ordinary routine > in the routine of daily work in harness1841 1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond ii In early times, before we were well in harness. 1841 R. W. Emerson Man the Reformer in Dial Apr. 525 He must..take on him the harness of routine and obsequiousness. 1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xvii. 101 Queer pair to run i' harness. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xii. 279 After a holiday, the day on which we resume harness joins on to the day on which we dropped it. 1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) x. vii. 371 The finest intellects have never lived in harness. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xxi. 544 Like most medieval workers they all died in harness. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 193 Palmerston..died, as he had lived, in harness, working to the last. 1889 S. Baring-Gould Pennycomequicks II. xviii. 26 If you insist on going into harness at once, in two years I shall be attending your funeral. extracted from harnessn. < as lemmas
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