| 单词 | fall what can fall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfall what can (also may, will) fall a. fall what can (also may, will) fall and variants: whatever may happen; come what may. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [phrase] > come what may fall what can (also may, will) fallc1225 avalȝe que valȝe1487 fall back, fall edge?1553 blow high, blow low1774 and chance the ducks1874 (come) rain or shine1905 c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 714 (MED) Lokið þet te heouenliche lauerd beo grunt wal of al þet ȝe wurcheð; for þet stont studeuest, falle þet falle. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 37 (MED) Fall what woll fall, y wol do more euell. 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xx. sig. Aviii Who speaketh all And hereth nought, Fall what shall fall, He is yll tought. 1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East ii. i. sig. D2 I will not come behinde, Fall what can fall. 1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd ii. xxiv. 68 I am resolv'd their Dog-ships, Ape-ships all This day to imitate, fall, what may fall. 1735 G. Ogle Epist. Horace Imitated 8 When most inrag'd the Sea, obscur'd the Sky; Fall what may fall! the Tempest I defy. 1858 Liberator (Boston) 24 Dec. 205/3 Fall what will fall, we are safe if we make righteousness, and fidelity to the Divine Law, our trust. 1883 Irish Monthly 11 540 Fall what will fall, I will do more evil. < as lemmas |
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