英语词汇“down the river”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1. on (also upon) (a, the, etc.) river: on the banks of a river; (also more widely) in the vicinity of a river. Frequently with the name of the river specified.

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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 2161 Upon a Rivere as he stod, That passe he wolde over the flod Withoute bot.

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 62 (MED) Thare a citee he sette..That Caerlyon was callid, with curius walles, On the riche reuare þat rynnys so faire.

c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) l. 1293 (MED) The cite of Cair..stant vppon a fair riuer, And Nile þat ryuer cleped it ys.

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. av^v Apone yat riche river..The side wallis war set.

a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) i. 1354 Thare huntyng is at alkyne dere And richt gud hawlkyn on rywere.

1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies Preambles f. 5 A certayne citie named Saim, situate vpon the riuer of Nilus.

1617 G. Carew Let. 18 Jan. (1860) 81 The Kinge of Denmarke..purposeth to build a stronge fort vppon the River of Elbe.

1648 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Fourth Pt. (1701) II. 1219 An extraordinary Storm..which..hath drowned Two of the best collyeries upon Sunderland River.

1705 Act 4 & 5 Anne c. 8 [21] Owners..of..Mills, upon any..rivers..shall constantly keep open One Scuttle or small Hatch of a Foot Square in the Waste Hatch or Water course..for the Salmon to pass and repass freely.

1790 P. Pond in R. Glover D. Thompson's Narr. (1962) 182 (map) Here upon the Branches of the Missury live the Maundiens, who bring to our Factory..on the Assinipoil River, Indian corn for sale.

1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) iii. App. 28 The presidio of Rio Grande is situated on that river.

1854 Harper's Mag. Mar. 566/2 The boats touched at most of the prominent towns on the river.

1919 Outing Mar. 342/1 On the Santee river 14 miles from Georgetown, S.C. I have some of the best hunting..in this part of the south.

1991 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 1/5 Sir George Young, the ‘bicycling Baronet’, has a modernist structure on the river at Cookham.

P2. in rivers: (esp. of a liquid) in copious amounts.

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1594 Selimus sig. F3^v My blood, Streaming in riuers from my tronked armes.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 72 Their [sc. the wind-gods'] watled Locks gusht all in Riuers out.

1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina 46 Only Philarites..did shed only some few [tears], meerly to accompany those which came in rivers from Aretina's eyes.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. vi. 46 Not one Drop of his Blood reached my Hand... But..I have the glorious Satisfaction of remembring I saw it run in Rivers on the Floor.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. v. 54 Gin by pailfuls, wine in rivers, Dash the window-glass to shivers!

1830 R. Sharp Diary 3 Aug. (1997) 270 All the Gangs and Gang-rails & Pepper Gangs of all degrees hasted away to Hotham yesterday where it was said He would flow in Rivers & Beef rise up like Mountains.

1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines xi. 171 For of this be sure, blood will flow in rivers before the deed is done.

1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) ii. xlvii. 555 The man continued to crawl, blood now running off him in rivers.

P3. one cannot bathe in the same river twice and variants [after ancient Greek δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης ‘you cannot step twice into the same stream’, attributed by Plato ( Cratylus 402a) to Heraclitus; compare Hellenistic Greek ποταμοῖς γὰρ δὶς τοῖς αὐτοῖς οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης ‘you cannot step twice into the same streams’, similarly attributed to Heraclitus by Plutarch (compare quot. 1603)] : circumstances are in a constant state of flux.

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1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1003 As Heraclitus saith: It is impossible for a man to enter into one and the same river twice, because new water commeth still, and runneth away continually.

1670 T. Tenison Creed Mr. Hobbes ii. v. 92 Attend then to the meaning of Heraclitus, who was wont to say, That no Man bathed twice in the same River; and of a Modern Physitian who hath told us, That no Man sits down the same to a second Meal.

1778 T. Reader Preaching of Gospel 5 No man ever bathed twice in the same river, ‘or awoke twice to the same life’.

1908 R. C. Trevelyan Sisyphus iii. 72 But, alas! by the best advice One cannot bathe in the same river twice.

2006 Runner's World Mar. 52/1 It's been said that you can never put your foot in the same river twice... Why is it then that runners think they can run the same route or same race twice?

P4. euphemistic. In miscellaneous uses as an image for the boundary between life and death, esp. in to cross the (dark) river: to die, pass away. [With allusion ultimately to the river Styx, which in Greek mythology formed the boundary between the human world and the underworld, and was later incorporated into many Christian depictions of hell, e.g. in the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost.]

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the world > life > death > [noun] > boundary between life and death

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1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 174 And hast thou crost that unknown river, Life's dreary bound!

1843 E. Quincy in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1889) III. 79 She had gone down with him [sc. her late husband] to the brink of the River, and..he had gone over and she returned.

1892 Week (Toronto) 660 [Whittier] had at last crossed the river, on whose brink he had been so long waiting.

1899 Harper's Weekly 28 Oct. 1086/1 A few of General Streight's staff are yet living; most of them have crossed the dark river.

1948 A. Stringer Red Wine of Youth xxiii. 264 Of the group that clustered about the grave, over which one gray-green olive tree leaned, many of the Hood men were themselves destined soon to cross the Dark River.

2001 C. Murphey Simply Living i. 50 Ultimately, they were as helpless as every other human being who has crossed the dark river.

P5. down the river.Always with negative connotations except with reference to cards: see Phrases 7 and sense 8a.

a. U.S. to go down the river.

(a) (Of a slave) (to be sold and) conveyed to a plantation on the lower Mississippi (see Phrases 5b(a)). Now historical and rare.

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1835 A. Fry Jrnl. Apr. in H. C. Frazier Slavery & Crime in Missouri (2001) 110 A negro man of Mr. Elies, having been sold to go down the river, attempted first to cut off both of his legs, failing to do that, cut his throat, did not entirely take his life, went a short distance and drowned himself.

1847 H. Clay Let. 22 Dec. in Papers (1991) X. 391 I never sold, in my life, any woman and child to go down the river or to go South.

1857 M. G. Browne Autobiogr. Female Slave xxii. 197 They will send me to the South. As the poor slaves say, I'm going down the river.

1893 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. Dec. 238/1 Percy Driscoll slept well the night he saved his house-minions from going down the river.

1982 L. H. MacKethan in J. Sekora & D. H. Turner Art of Slave Narr. 66 To go down the river, for a slave, is to watch one's destiny take the darkest imaginable turn.

(b) colloquial. To come to grief, to become irreparably damaged or decayed. Cf. to go down the Swanee at Swanee n. 2. rare.

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1939 ‘E. Queen’ in Blue Bk. Mag. Oct. 18/1 ‘Mike's car's gone down the river.’ ‘I thought the champion was wealthy,’ said Mr. Queen. ‘Not any more.’

1948 C. Rice Big Midget Murders i. 6 If the Casino should go down the river, it meant back to the press agent grind again.

b. to sell (a person) down the river.

(a) U.S. To sell (a slave), esp. one regarded as a troublemaker, to a plantation on the lower Mississippi, typically regarded as providing the harshest conditions for labour; (also occasionally in extended use) to deliver (oneself) into servitude or subjugation. Now historical except in extended use.

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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > be slave of [verb (transitive)] > enslave > sell into slavery

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to sell (a person) down the river1836

1836 Afr. Repository & Colonial Jrnl. Oct. 321 Suppose it be enacted that after the year 1840 slavery shall cease to exist in Kentucky. What would follow? All who chose would sell their slaves down the river; the benevolent would free them, and send them away, or let them remain, as they thought best.

1839 Liberator (Boston) 26 Apr. 68/5 His father had been sold down the river some seven months ago, since which time he had not been heard from.

1851 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin in National Era 14 Aug. 1/2 I've had one or two of these fellers, and I jest sold 'em down river.

1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson ix. 113 Ole Marse Driscoll 'll sell you down de river.

1927 P. G. Wodehouse Small Bachelor i. 21 When Sigsbee Waddington married for the second time, he to all intents and purposes sold himself down the river.

1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xxii. 373 You'll go or I'll sell you down the river. You'll never see your mother again or anybody you know and I'll sell you for a field hand too.

2005 S. Deyle Carry me Back vii. 245 Initially, they referred to the wonderful life that a slave longed to return to after being sold down the river in the domestic trade.

(b) colloquial (originally U.S.). To betray, esp. for one's own benefit.

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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > betrayal > betray [verb (transitive)]

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to go back on (also upon)1859

to sell (a person) down the river1921

1921 E. Davis Hist. N.Y. Times 1851–1921 i. v. 170 Its editors were chiefly concerned to prevent it from being ‘sold down the river’.

1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. ii. 44 ‘I'll fix you something for your liver’; And thus he sells us down the river.

1951 Record Changer Nov. 7/1 At the very least, Columbia is apt to feel it has been sold down the river.

1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago vi. 155 It's my considered opinion, Yurochka, we've been sold down the river.

1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 16 Nov. 3/3 Some aspects of Britain's education system needed to be put right but ‘we should not sell it down the river’ Education Secretary Mrs. Shirley Williams said last night.

2004 On Earth Fall 35/1 There is no one over here saying that the son of a gun sold us down the river.

c. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to send down the river: to send to prison. Cf. up the river at Phrases 6.

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1894 Atlantic Rep. 27 391/2 The witness..has testified here that he heard the chief say that he had got H. H. Hollister, and was going to send him down the river, whether guilty or not.

1910 Southern Rep. 50 781/2 Latham was guilty and, should he be a juror, he would send him down the river.

1974 Times 31 Jan. 4/5 He had overheard Miss Jones threatening Mr Dee ‘to send him down the river for life’.

1987 J. Barnao LockeStep xi. 115 You don't send a bunch of Godfathers down the river for twenty years without making some serious enemies.

d. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to be down the river: to be finished, ruined, or past repair; to be in the past, to be over and done with. Now rare.

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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > into slavery [phrase]

down the river1930

the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > in the past or over and done with

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irremeably1805

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down the river1930

1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement ii. 80 And up to eighteen months ago, I'd have told you that Claridge and Molton was one of the soundest concerns in the business. And look at 'em now. Properly in Queer Street. Absolutely down the river.

1931 Sun (Baltimore) 31 Jan. 1/5 True enough, I used to hustle a little beer in the old days—but that's all down the river.

P6. colloquial (originally U.S.). up the river: to prison; (originally) spec. to Sing Sing prison, situated up the Hudson River from the city of New York. Now also: in prison. Frequently in to send a person up the river.See also sense 8a(b).

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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [adverb] > to prison

up the river1874

1864 C. G. Halpine Life & Adventures of Private Miles O'Reilly 142 He hoped this year that they might be enabled to send up the river—he did not mean to Sing Sing, but to Albany—four Senators and seventeen Assemblymen of the best possible stripe.]

1874 C. Sutton N.Y. Tombs xx. 248 ‘Well, Colonel,’ he remarked, when the Colonel was brought before him, ‘here you are again. This time I think you stand a good chance for a trip up the river.’

1891 in H. Campbell Darkness & Daylight (1892) ii. 75 Lager-beer had come up since I went up the river.

1905 C. H. Day Actress & Clerk v. 53 I didn't go up the river for several stretches for nothing, I didn't. I've got a record.

1946 Chicago Daily News 5 Mar. 8/3 I done it. Send me up the river. Give me the hot seat.

1990 ‘E. McBain’ Vespers xii. 285 Blackmail, or extortion, was punishable by a max of fifteen years. A long stretch up the river if you threatened to tattle unless someone paid you off.

1990 B. Roche Poor Beast in Rain i. i. 9 We were queer and lucky not to be sent up the river that time boy.

2008 L. Fairstein Killer Heat xiv. 90 I'll find this beast and you'll send him up the river for the rest of his life.

P7.

down the river n. Poker the game of seven-card stud; (also) the seventh and last card dealt, face down, to a player in this game.

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1920 Rio Grande Republic (New Mexico) 30 Sept. 6/5 A real honest to goodness poker joint, where jack pots, ‘down the river’, stud poker and one card monte reigned supreme.

1949 G. S. Coffin Fortune Poker Gloss. 176 Down the River, Seven-card Stud or manner of dealing the last card down in same.

1961 I. Rottenberg Friday Night Poker ii. 25 Seven-card stud, also known as ‘down the river’, is a game with enough zip to satisfy exotic tastes.

1973 T. A. Preston & B. G. Cox Play Poker to Win ix. 114 That ‘down the river’ card—that's what the last face-down card is called—is the best possible one on which to make your hand.

2001 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 21 Jan. (Living section) 1 They play rounds of poker in specific order: seven-card stud (‘Down the River’); five-card draw,..‘Hold 'Em’; and, finally, five-card stud.

单词	down the river
释义	> as lemmas down the river down the river n. Poker the game of seven-card stud; (also) the seventh and last card dealt, face down, to a player in this game. ΚΠ 1920 Rio Grande Republic (New Mexico) 30 Sept. 6/5 A real honest to goodness poker joint, where jack pots, ‘down the river’, stud poker and one card monte reigned supreme. 1949 G. S. Coffin Fortune Poker Gloss. 176 Down the River, Seven-card Stud or manner of dealing the last card down in same. 1961 I. Rottenberg Friday Night Poker ii. 25 Seven-card stud, also known as ‘down the river’, is a game with enough zip to satisfy exotic tastes. 1973 T. A. Preston & B. G. Cox Play Poker to Win ix. 114 That ‘down the river’ card—that's what the last face-down card is called—is the best possible one on which to make your hand. 2001 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 21 Jan. (Living section) 1 They play rounds of poker in specific order: seven-card stud (‘Down the River’); five-card draw,..‘Hold 'Em’; and, finally, five-card stud. extracted from rivern.¹ down the river a. down the river: (a) (in seven-card stud, with reference to the last card dealt) face down; cf. down the river n. at Phrases 7; (b) (also in other forms of poker) in or into the closing stages of a hand; at the dealing of the last card; also occasionally up the river. Cf. down the river at Phrases 5, up the river at Phrases 6. ΚΠ 1949 G. S. Coffin Fortune Poker viii. 67 The last card is dealt down (down the river) followed by the fifth-and-last interval. 1978 D. Brunson How I made over $1,000,000 playing Poker 140 Wait until Fifth or Sixth St. to raise—because by then you can be pretty sure that they'll be going down the river (to the end) with you. 1979 Washington Post 24 June m6/2 I got kings up the river. 1981 in T. L. Clark Dict. Gambling & Gaming (1987) 182/1 You might catch something good on the flop..and then get snapped off down the river if somebody fills a flush on sixth street. 2004 G. McDonald Deal me In! (2005) vi. 82 The automated ‘dealer’ [in an online game] plays very aggressively... If you stay in the hand, it's likely the dealer will too, all the way down the river. extracted from rivern.¹ down the river Phrases P1. on (also upon) (a, the, etc.) river: on the banks of a river; (also more widely) in the vicinity of a river. Frequently with the name of the river specified. ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 2161 Upon a Rivere as he stod, That passe he wolde over the flod Withoute bot. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 62 (MED) Thare a citee he sette..That Caerlyon was callid, with curius walles, On the riche reuare þat rynnys so faire. c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) l. 1293 (MED) The cite of Cair..stant vppon a fair riuer, And Nile þat ryuer cleped it ys. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. av^v Apone yat riche river..The side wallis war set. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) i. 1354 Thare huntyng is at alkyne dere And richt gud hawlkyn on rywere. 1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies Preambles f. 5 A certayne citie named Saim, situate vpon the riuer of Nilus. 1617 G. Carew Let. 18 Jan. (1860) 81 The Kinge of Denmarke..purposeth to build a stronge fort vppon the River of Elbe. 1648 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Fourth Pt. (1701) II. 1219 An extraordinary Storm..which..hath drowned Two of the best collyeries upon Sunderland River. 1705 Act 4 & 5 Anne c. 8 [21] Owners..of..Mills, upon any..rivers..shall constantly keep open One Scuttle or small Hatch of a Foot Square in the Waste Hatch or Water course..for the Salmon to pass and repass freely. 1790 P. Pond in R. Glover D. Thompson's Narr. (1962) 182 (map) Here upon the Branches of the Missury live the Maundiens, who bring to our Factory..on the Assinipoil River, Indian corn for sale. 1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) iii. App. 28 The presidio of Rio Grande is situated on that river. 1854 Harper's Mag. Mar. 566/2 The boats touched at most of the prominent towns on the river. 1919 Outing Mar. 342/1 On the Santee river 14 miles from Georgetown, S.C. I have some of the best hunting..in this part of the south. 1991 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 1/5 Sir George Young, the ‘bicycling Baronet’, has a modernist structure on the river at Cookham. P2. in rivers: (esp. of a liquid) in copious amounts. ΚΠ 1594 Selimus sig. F3^v My blood, Streaming in riuers from my tronked armes. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 72 Their [sc. the wind-gods'] watled Locks gusht all in Riuers out. 1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina 46 Only Philarites..did shed only some few [tears], meerly to accompany those which came in rivers from Aretina's eyes. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. vi. 46 Not one Drop of his Blood reached my Hand... But..I have the glorious Satisfaction of remembring I saw it run in Rivers on the Floor. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. v. 54 Gin by pailfuls, wine in rivers, Dash the window-glass to shivers! 1830 R. Sharp Diary 3 Aug. (1997) 270 All the Gangs and Gang-rails & Pepper Gangs of all degrees hasted away to Hotham yesterday where it was said He would flow in Rivers & Beef rise up like Mountains. 1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines xi. 171 For of this be sure, blood will flow in rivers before the deed is done. 1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) ii. xlvii. 555 The man continued to crawl, blood now running off him in rivers. P3. one cannot bathe in the same river twice and variants [after ancient Greek δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης ‘you cannot step twice into the same stream’, attributed by Plato ( Cratylus 402a) to Heraclitus; compare Hellenistic Greek ποταμοῖς γὰρ δὶς τοῖς αὐτοῖς οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης ‘you cannot step twice into the same streams’, similarly attributed to Heraclitus by Plutarch (compare quot. 1603)] : circumstances are in a constant state of flux. ΚΠ 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1003 As Heraclitus saith: It is impossible for a man to enter into one and the same river twice, because new water commeth still, and runneth away continually. 1670 T. Tenison Creed Mr. Hobbes ii. v. 92 Attend then to the meaning of Heraclitus, who was wont to say, That no Man bathed twice in the same River; and of a Modern Physitian who hath told us, That no Man sits down the same to a second Meal. 1778 T. Reader Preaching of Gospel 5 No man ever bathed twice in the same river, ‘or awoke twice to the same life’. 1908 R. C. Trevelyan Sisyphus iii. 72 But, alas! by the best advice One cannot bathe in the same river twice. 2006 Runner's World Mar. 52/1 It's been said that you can never put your foot in the same river twice... Why is it then that runners think they can run the same route or same race twice? P4. euphemistic. In miscellaneous uses as an image for the boundary between life and death, esp. in to cross the (dark) river: to die, pass away. [With allusion ultimately to the river Styx, which in Greek mythology formed the boundary between the human world and the underworld, and was later incorporated into many Christian depictions of hell, e.g. in the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > boundary between life and death river1793 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 174 And hast thou crost that unknown river, Life's dreary bound! 1843 E. Quincy in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1889) III. 79 She had gone down with him [sc. her late husband] to the brink of the River, and..he had gone over and she returned. 1892 Week (Toronto) 660 [Whittier] had at last crossed the river, on whose brink he had been so long waiting. 1899 Harper's Weekly 28 Oct. 1086/1 A few of General Streight's staff are yet living; most of them have crossed the dark river. 1948 A. Stringer Red Wine of Youth xxiii. 264 Of the group that clustered about the grave, over which one gray-green olive tree leaned, many of the Hood men were themselves destined soon to cross the Dark River. 2001 C. Murphey Simply Living i. 50 Ultimately, they were as helpless as every other human being who has crossed the dark river. P5. down the river.Always with negative connotations except with reference to cards: see Phrases 7 and sense 8a. a. U.S. to go down the river. (a) (Of a slave) (to be sold and) conveyed to a plantation on the lower Mississippi (see Phrases 5b(a)). Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1835 A. Fry Jrnl. Apr. in H. C. Frazier Slavery & Crime in Missouri (2001) 110 A negro man of Mr. Elies, having been sold to go down the river, attempted first to cut off both of his legs, failing to do that, cut his throat, did not entirely take his life, went a short distance and drowned himself. 1847 H. Clay Let. 22 Dec. in Papers (1991) X. 391 I never sold, in my life, any woman and child to go down the river or to go South. 1857 M. G. Browne Autobiogr. Female Slave xxii. 197 They will send me to the South. As the poor slaves say, I'm going down the river. 1893 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. Dec. 238/1 Percy Driscoll slept well the night he saved his house-minions from going down the river. 1982 L. H. MacKethan in J. Sekora & D. H. Turner Art of Slave Narr. 66 To go down the river, for a slave, is to watch one's destiny take the darkest imaginable turn. (b) colloquial. To come to grief, to become irreparably damaged or decayed. Cf. to go down the Swanee at Swanee n. 2. rare. ΚΠ 1939 ‘E. Queen’ in Blue Bk. Mag. Oct. 18/1 ‘Mike's car's gone down the river.’ ‘I thought the champion was wealthy,’ said Mr. Queen. ‘Not any more.’ 1948 C. Rice Big Midget Murders i. 6 If the Casino should go down the river, it meant back to the press agent grind again. b. to sell (a person) down the river. (a) U.S. To sell (a slave), esp. one regarded as a troublemaker, to a plantation on the lower Mississippi, typically regarded as providing the harshest conditions for labour; (also occasionally in extended use) to deliver (oneself) into servitude or subjugation. Now historical except in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > be slave of [verb (transitive)] > enslave > sell into slavery sella1000 to sell (a person) down the river1836 1836 Afr. Repository & Colonial Jrnl. Oct. 321 Suppose it be enacted that after the year 1840 slavery shall cease to exist in Kentucky. What would follow? All who chose would sell their slaves down the river; the benevolent would free them, and send them away, or let them remain, as they thought best. 1839 Liberator (Boston) 26 Apr. 68/5 His father had been sold down the river some seven months ago, since which time he had not been heard from. 1851 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin in National Era 14 Aug. 1/2 I've had one or two of these fellers, and I jest sold 'em down river. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson ix. 113 Ole Marse Driscoll 'll sell you down de river. 1927 P. G. Wodehouse Small Bachelor i. 21 When Sigsbee Waddington married for the second time, he to all intents and purposes sold himself down the river. 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xxii. 373 You'll go or I'll sell you down the river. You'll never see your mother again or anybody you know and I'll sell you for a field hand too. 2005 S. Deyle Carry me Back vii. 245 Initially, they referred to the wonderful life that a slave longed to return to after being sold down the river in the domestic trade. (b) colloquial (originally U.S.). To betray, esp. for one's own benefit. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > betrayal > betray [verb (transitive)] sellc950 forredea1000 belewec1000 trechec1230 betrayc1275 trayc1275 wrayc1275 traise1320 trechetc1330 betradec1375 betraisec1386 bewray1535 betrantc1540 boil1602 reveal1640 peacha1689 bridge1819 to go back on (also upon)1859 to sell (a person) down the river1921 1921 E. Davis Hist. N.Y. Times 1851–1921 i. v. 170 Its editors were chiefly concerned to prevent it from being ‘sold down the river’. 1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. ii. 44 ‘I'll fix you something for your liver’; And thus he sells us down the river. 1951 Record Changer Nov. 7/1 At the very least, Columbia is apt to feel it has been sold down the river. 1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago vi. 155 It's my considered opinion, Yurochka, we've been sold down the river. 1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 16 Nov. 3/3 Some aspects of Britain's education system needed to be put right but ‘we should not sell it down the river’ Education Secretary Mrs. Shirley Williams said last night. 2004 On Earth Fall 35/1 There is no one over here saying that the son of a gun sold us down the river. c. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to send down the river: to send to prison. Cf. up the river at Phrases 6. ΚΠ 1894 Atlantic Rep. 27 391/2 The witness..has testified here that he heard the chief say that he had got H. H. Hollister, and was going to send him down the river, whether guilty or not. 1910 Southern Rep. 50 781/2 Latham was guilty and, should he be a juror, he would send him down the river. 1974 Times 31 Jan. 4/5 He had overheard Miss Jones threatening Mr Dee ‘to send him down the river for life’. 1987 J. Barnao LockeStep xi. 115 You don't send a bunch of Godfathers down the river for twenty years without making some serious enemies. d. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to be down the river: to be finished, ruined, or past repair; to be in the past, to be over and done with. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > into slavery [phrase] down the river1930 the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > in the past or over and done with arrear1587 irremeably1805 forbye1862 down the river1930 1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement ii. 80 And up to eighteen months ago, I'd have told you that Claridge and Molton was one of the soundest concerns in the business. And look at 'em now. Properly in Queer Street. Absolutely down the river. 1931 Sun (Baltimore) 31 Jan. 1/5 True enough, I used to hustle a little beer in the old days—but that's all down the river. P6. colloquial (originally U.S.). up the river: to prison; (originally) spec. to Sing Sing prison, situated up the Hudson River from the city of New York. Now also: in prison. Frequently in to send a person up the river.See also sense 8a(b). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [adverb] > to prison up the river1874 1864 C. G. Halpine Life & Adventures of Private Miles O'Reilly 142 He hoped this year that they might be enabled to send up the river—he did not mean to Sing Sing, but to Albany—four Senators and seventeen Assemblymen of the best possible stripe.] 1874 C. Sutton N.Y. Tombs xx. 248 ‘Well, Colonel,’ he remarked, when the Colonel was brought before him, ‘here you are again. This time I think you stand a good chance for a trip up the river.’ 1891 in H. Campbell Darkness & Daylight (1892) ii. 75 Lager-beer had come up since I went up the river. 1905 C. H. Day Actress & Clerk v. 53 I didn't go up the river for several stretches for nothing, I didn't. I've got a record. 1946 Chicago Daily News 5 Mar. 8/3 I done it. Send me up the river. Give me the hot seat. 1990 ‘E. McBain’ Vespers xii. 285 Blackmail, or extortion, was punishable by a max of fifteen years. A long stretch up the river if you threatened to tattle unless someone paid you off. 1990 B. Roche Poor Beast in Rain i. i. 9 We were queer and lucky not to be sent up the river that time boy. 2008 L. Fairstein Killer Heat xiv. 90 I'll find this beast and you'll send him up the river for the rest of his life. P7. down the river n. Poker the game of seven-card stud; (also) the seventh and last card dealt, face down, to a player in this game. ΚΠ 1920 Rio Grande Republic (New Mexico) 30 Sept. 6/5 A real honest to goodness poker joint, where jack pots, ‘down the river’, stud poker and one card monte reigned supreme. 1949 G. S. Coffin Fortune Poker Gloss. 176 Down the River, Seven-card Stud or manner of dealing the last card down in same. 1961 I. Rottenberg Friday Night Poker ii. 25 Seven-card stud, also known as ‘down the river’, is a game with enough zip to satisfy exotic tastes. 1973 T. A. Preston & B. G. Cox Play Poker to Win ix. 114 That ‘down the river’ card—that's what the last face-down card is called—is the best possible one on which to make your hand. 2001 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 21 Jan. (Living section) 1 They play rounds of poker in specific order: seven-card stud (‘Down the River’); five-card draw,..‘Hold 'Em’; and, finally, five-card stud. extracted from rivern.¹ < as lemmas
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