| 单词 | doctor's orders |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdoctor's orders c. doctor's orders: instructions from one's physician; (hence figurative) any injunctions which cannot be evaded. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > [noun] > course of treatment > prescribed by a doctor prescription1568 doctor's orders1716 society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > injunction or instruction > an injunction or instruction > which cannot be evaded doctor's orders1932 1716 B. Griffin Humours of Purgatory I. 25 I love to be expeditious in dispatching a Patient according to the Doctor's Orders. 1791 A. W. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. xi. 193 The nurse knew her duty too well to obey him, and had strictly followed the doctor's orders. 1841 C. Dickens Let. 18 Jan. (1969) II. 189 I have been obliged to make up my mind—on the doctor's orders—to stay at home this evening. 1886 H. Munby Let. 12 Mar. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 410 Oh the miserable & false step you took when you separated me from you, by the doctor's orders. 1899 Econ. Jrnl. 9 278 No article of diet to be supplied unless by doctor's orders. 1932 A. Christie Peril at End House ix. 104 No one..will be admitted... ‘Doctor's orders,’ they will be told. A phrase very convenient and one not to be gainsayed. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet 73 He returned to the gallery offering his candy about. ‘Doctor's orders,’ he said. ‘He'll probably send me another bill now for ten cents for advising me to eat a nickel's worth of candy.’ 1976 Sci. Amer. Mar. 127/2 ‘Doctor's orders’ excuse almost any behaviour, yet they are mere advice. 1992 Independent 22 Apr. 12/6 On an unusually quiet Friday night at the Ulysses, Jane is smoking the first of several roll-ups (against doctor's orders). < as lemmas |
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