单词 | fly off |
释义 | > as lemmasto fly off d. to fly off: literal to start away; ‘to revolt’ (Johnson); figurative to take another course; to break away (from an agreement or engagement). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily fleec825 runOE swervea1225 biwevec1275 skip1338 streekc1380 warpa1400 yerna1400 smoltc1400 stepc1460 to flee (one's) touch?1515 skirr1548 rubc1550 to make awaya1566 lope1575 scuddle1577 scoura1592 to take the start1600 to walk off1604 to break awaya1616 to make off1652 to fly off1667 scuttle1681 whew1684 scamper1687 whistle off1689 brush1699 to buy a brush1699 to take (its, etc.) wing1704 decamp1751 to take (a) French leave1751 morris1765 to rush off1794 to hop the twig1797 to run along1803 scoot1805 to take off1815 speela1818 to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 absquatulize1829 mosey1829 absquatulate1830 put1834 streak1834 vamoose1834 to put out1835 cut1836 stump it1841 scratch1843 scarper1846 to vamoose the ranch1847 hook1851 shoo1851 slide1859 to cut and run1861 get1861 skedaddle1862 bolt1864 cheese it1866 to do a bunkc1870 to wake snakes1872 bunk1877 nit1882 to pull one's freight1884 fooster1892 to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892 smoke1893 mooch1899 to fly the coop1901 skyhoot1901 shemozzle1902 to light a shuck1905 to beat it1906 pooter1907 to take a run-out powder1909 blow1912 to buzz off1914 to hop it1914 skate1915 beetle1919 scram1928 amscray1931 boogie1940 skidoo1949 bug1950 do a flit1952 to do a scarper1958 to hit, split or take the breeze1959 to do a runner1980 to be (also get, go) ghost1986 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > withdraw from an engagement or promise starta1450 fang1522 recidivate1528 to draw back1572 flinch1578 to shrink collar1579 retract1616 to shrink out of the collar1636 renege1651 to fly off1667 to slip (the) collarc1677 to declare off1749 to cry off1775 to back out1807 to fight off1833 crawfish1848 welsh1871 to pull out1884 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 614 Strait they chang'd thir minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. View more context for this quotation 1713 J. Addison Cato iv. 54 The traytor Syphax..Flew off at once with his Numidian Horse. 1785 F. Burney Diary 16 Dec. (1842) II. 371 I was..ready to fly off if any one knocked at the street-door. 1816 Sporting Mag. 48 173 From this agreement he flew off. 1864 W. H. Ainsworth John Law II. iii. ii. 55 Were I to ask for time, [Nicomède] would inevitably fly off, and the affair would come to an end. to fly off c. With various adverbs, about, back, off, out, up, etc. †to fly off: (of cannon) to be fired. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate artillery [verb (intransitive)] > be discharged play1591 to fly off1650 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 1769 (MED) Þe fire flaghe out with þonder and raine. c1430 Syr. Gener. (Roxb.) 5934 Of his sheld floy of a grete cantel. c1460 Launfal 473 The erl of Chestere..smot hym the helm on hegh That the crest adoun flegh. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. D8v From their shields forth flyeth firie light. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. i. 112 My Chaffe And Corne shall flye asunder. View more context for this quotation 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Hist. Revol. Naples (1664) i. 117 The Vice-roy..caus'd all the ordnance to flie off. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xvi. 55 The dog struck her over the head with his hatchet till her brains flew out. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 15 They..cannot agree together, but fly back from each other. 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 177 The Tool will..fly off where a Knot..comes to the Tool. 1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 41 Which..by spouting out, will make the Water fly about. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 107 Lowering her Main-Yard: the Tack flew up. 1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 5 Aug. 1/1 The Earth..without flying off in a Tangent Line, constantly rolls about the Sun. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 349 The ice shivering with the violence of the strain..the anchor flew out. < as lemmas |
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