单词 | foot to foot |
释义 | > as lemmasfoot to foot ΚΠ ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 121 Þei þat dwellyn vnder vs ben feet aȝenst feet. 1499 Bk. J. Mandeville (de Worde) sig. S ijv Prester Iohans londe lyethfoot agaynst foot to Englonde. 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Aiiij The Apostles of Christe were Antipodes the one to the other, and stode feete to feete the one agaynste the other. 1578 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) Antipodes, people going directly against vs, foote to foot. 1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. lv. 252 Men are therefore Antipodes one to another, that is, going feete against feete, hauing neuertheles all of them their heads towards heauen. 1614 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Little Bartas in tr. J. Bertaut Parl. Vertues Royal 222 Th'heauie Earth..On th'ample Surface of whose massie Ball, Men (round about) doe trample over-all, Foot against Foot, though still..Their Faces all be towards Heav'n erect. 1682 T. Creech tr. Lucretius De natura rerum i. 32 So as our shadows in smooth streams appear, so feet to feet some Animals walk there. foot to foot f. foot to foot [compare Anglo-Norman (combatre) pé a pé (c1343) and earlier hand to hand adv.] : in close combat (literal and figurative). Also occasionally foot against foot. Cf. to set one's foot to (also by) at Phrases 5c.hand to hand adv. and adj. is the more common term. ΚΠ 1534 G. Joye tr. Dauids Psalter sig. f.iiiv I shall reason with the & set fote to fote agaynst the. 1565 R. Shacklock tr. S. Hozjusz Hatchet of Heresies f. 30v They had prouoked one an other to set fote to fote in disputation. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 879 They encountred one another, not with their missiue weapons onely..but with their drawn swords foot to foot. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. vii. 66 Fighting foot to foot . View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 569 It shall be seen, weak Woman, what you can, When Foot to Foot, you combat with a Man. 1709 J. Rowe tr. Sallust Historian 67 Both Armies..Ran to Close at the same Time, and setting Foot to Foot with their Adversary, Disputed the Business with Sword in Hand. 1776 T. Smollett in tr. F. de S. de la Mothe-Fénelon Adventures Telemachus II. xvi. 130 Then they close foot against foot, and hand opposed to hand, clinging so close together, that the two bodies seemed but one. 1815 W. A. Scott Battle of Waterloo 164 They saw me fighting foot to foot, sword in hand. 1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career III. iii. 41 He and his uncle were foot to foot in downright conflict, and money was the question. 1903 P. E. Burrowes Revolutionary Ess. 53 It is not as a religion that the Socialist finds himself foot to foot with her [sc. Rome],..but as a feudal political institution. 1921 G. W. Ogden Flockmaster of Poison Creek iv. 37 Here he had stood foot to foot with the strong man of the sheeplands..and had come off the victor. 2011 M. Brennan With Fate Conspire 152 If they stood foot to foot with those thugs, they would lose. < as lemmas |
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