| 单词 | fight dog, fight bear |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfight dog, fight bear P14. fight dog, fight bear: (to fight) till one or other of two adversaries is overcome (sometimes as an expression of indifference). Now rare. [From the pitting of a dog against a bear in bear-baiting; compare (in an account of bear-baiting): 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Piijv Some..will not make anie bones of .xx.xl. C. pound. at once to hazard at a bait: with feight dog, feight beare (say they) the deuill part all. ΚΠ a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 350/2 You must fight according to the old Saying, Fight Dog, fight Bear; that is, till one be overcome. 1717 E. Ward Coll. Hist. & State Poems II. 21 True Protestants..should for neither pray nor care, But cry Halloo, fight Dog, fight Bear. 1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 5 Mar. (1946) 148 A resolution to keep Myself clear of politics, & let them fight dog, fight bear. 1911 J. A. L. Riley et al. Relig. Question in Public Educ. 272 Since God has permitted the unity of religious belief in England to be shattered..there are three policies open:..(a) Live and let live. (b) Fight dog, fight bear. (c) Return to religious unity. < as lemmas |
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