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单词 don't let flies stick to your heels
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don't let flies stick to your heels
e. Phrases: like a fly in amber: see amber n.2 and adj. Phrases 1. a fly in the ointment [after Ecclesiastes x. 1] : some small or trifling circumstance which spoils the enjoyment of a thing, or detracts from its agreeableness. fly on the (coach-)wheel (see quot. 1870). to send away with a fly in one's ear: cf. flea n. 4 to break, crush, a fly upon the wheel (figurative): to spend a great deal of energy and labour upon something not worth it. let that fly stick in (or to) the wall (Scottish): say nothing more on that subject. don't let flies stick to your heels: be quick. (to) drink with the flies (Australian and New Zealand colloquial): see quot. 1943.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss > unceremoniously
to send packingc1450
trussa1500
to go (send, etc.) away with a flea in one's ear1577
to set packing1577
pack1589
ship1594
to send away with a fly in one's ear1606
to give a packing penny to1609
to pack off1693
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
to send about one's business1728
trundle1794
to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1816
bundle1823
to give the bucket to1863
shake1872
to give (a person) the finger1874
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (someone or something) the chuck1888
to give (someone) the gate1918
to get the (big) bird1924
to tie a can to (or on)1926
to give (a person) (his or her) running shoes1938
to give (someone) the Lonsdale1958
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort on something futile
to shoe the goose14..
to send (also carry, etc.) owls to Athens1548
to break, crush, a fly upon the wheel1606
to carry coals to Newcastlea1614
to bang (also run, bash, etc.) one's head against a brick wall1689
to preach to the converted1857
to be on a hiding to nothing1905
to chase one's tail1963
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)]
to hold one's tonguec897
to keep one's tonguec897
to be (hold oneself) stilla1000
to say littleOE
to hold one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
to keep (one's) silence?c1225
to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275
stillc1330
peacec1395
mum1440
to say neither buff nor baff1481
to keep (also play) mum1532
to charm the tonguec1540
to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546
hush1548
to play (at) mumbudgeta1564
not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590
to keep a still tongue in one's head1729
to sing small1738
to sew up1785
let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814
to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824
to choke back1844
mumchance1854
to keep one's trap shut1899
to choke up1907
to belt up1949
to keep (or stay) shtum1958
shtum1958
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > in a manner causing great harm [phrase] > small or trifling thing which spoils enjoyment
a fly in the ointment1836
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > moving swiftly in specific manner [phrase] > in or with haste > go in haste
don't let flies stick to your heels1836
the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] > person
bug1536
bladder1579
God almighty1632
cockalorumc1796
his nibs1821
prima donna1834
fly on the (coach-)wheel1840
high muck-a-muck1856
nobs1877
high muckety-muck1882
muckamuck1883
Pooh Bah1886
prima ballerina1923
I AM1926
muckety-muck1927
Pooter1957
cheese1965
1606 True Relation Proc. at Arraignm. Late Traitors sig. Zz4v The princes..sent away your second Mercury with a flie in his eare.
1723 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth (ed. 3) 82 Flyes..that I have yet seen inclos'd in Amber.
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xxiii. 355 O whisht, Colonel, for the love o' God! let that flee stick i' the wa'. View more context for this quotation
1824 T. De Quincey Incognito in Knight's Q. Mag. 3 143 To apply any more elaborate criticism to them, would be ‘to break a fly upon the wheel’.
1828 C. Lamb Poor Relations in Elia 2nd Ser. 148 A Poor Relation is—the most irrelevant thing in nature,—..a lion in your path,—a frog in your chamber,—a fly in your ointment.
1836 Going to Service iv. 44 Don't let flies stick to your heels, and don't let ten minutes get the start of you.
1840 E. Bulwer-Lytton Money v. iii I have the greatest respect..for the worthy and intelligent flies upon both sides the wheel.
1870 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable Fly on the coach wheel, one who fancies himself of mighty importance, but who is in reality of none at all.
1914 Scotsman 10 Sept. 9/1 The present situation is not without its ‘fly in the ointment’ for those motorists who have patriotically lent the assistance of their cars to the military authorities.
1928 Daily Express 11 May 10/7 The insurance of school fees has now become so general that it is as well to point out to parents that there is a rather large fly in the ointment.
1936 A. Huxley Olive Tree 5 There is only one fly in the ointment offered by commercial propagandists; they want your money.
1940 Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Jan. 35/3 He never needs to buy whisky, either, though a natural antipathy to drinking with the flies saves the officer's supply.
1943 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang (ed. 3) 28 Drink with the flies: a drink consumed without the company of others. Also, to drink alone.
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