| 单词 | fret and fume |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfret and fume 3. Agitation of mind; a ruffled condition of temper; irritation, passion, vexation; also, querulous or peevish utterance. In fret of mind, fret and fever, fret and fume. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] annoy?c1225 noyancec1400 vexation?a1425 crabbingc1450 annoyance1502 grudging1530 vexation of spirit1535 fret1556 fashery1558 spitea1586 gall1591 molestation1598 annoyment1607 incommodation1664 vexednessa1670 tracasserie1715 incommodement1733 frettation1779 vex1815 balls-ache1938 sterks1941 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > [noun] > peevish utterance fret1556 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xliii. 38 This formost spider and flie in furious fret, Frowning ech on other. 1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. i. sig. A2 The thought of that Turnes my abused heart-strings into fret. 1612 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 184 He is..blamed..as if he had hastened his brother's end by putting him into frets. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (2 Cor. xii. 5) They make us sick of the fret. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xx. 77 It were a plague and fret of mind..to the poor credulous Laiety. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 154 My Lord was in as great a Fret as I. 1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 143/1 Situated as thou art..amid the fret and fever of speculation. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. vii. 193 A fret and fever that keeps heart and brain on fire. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xxix. 325 He heard his wife's plaintive fret. 1886 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VII. Ps. cxxvii. 2 Those whom the Lord loves are delivered from the fret and fume of life. to fret and fume a. intransitive for reflexive. To distress oneself with constant thoughts of regret or discontent; to vex oneself, chafe, worry. Often with additional notion of giving querulous and peevish expression to these feelings. Also, to fret and fume, and fret it out, and const. about, after, at, over, upon. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (intransitive)] sorroweOE aruec1000 ruea1400 overthinka1450 regretc1450 to rue the day (also hour)c1461 fret1551 to cry over spilt milk (or water)1738 the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > be or become irritated [verb (intransitive)] enchafec1380 fume and chafec1522 chafe1525 to fret and fume1551 rankle1582 to lose patience, one's temper1622 pique1664 to have no patience with1682 ruffle1719 to be out of the way (with)1740 echinate1792 nettle1810 to get one's dander up1831 to set up one's jay-feathers1880 hackle1935 to get off one's bike1939 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > be worried [verb (intransitive)] to annoy of?c1400 fret1551 moil1567 ferret1807 worrit1854 worry1860 whittle1880 fidget1884 agonize1915 to worry (oneself), be worried, sick1952 to stress out1983 stress1988 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia i. sig. Eiii He..so fret so fumed & chafed at it. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 46 [He] chafid and frettid like a proctor. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. iii. sig. I3v Another frets, and sets his grinding teeth, Foaming with rage. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. iii. 188 The more conspicuously are their evill deeds discovered: which makes them the more fret and fume. 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 53 Hanniball gallantly frets it out in Silius. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. iv. 81 He fretted to see his inferiours raised. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 9. ⁋1 He neither languishes nor burns, but frets for Love. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man v. 62 He only frets to keep himself employed. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 35 Fretting about the Money Collins had got from me. 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 33 Another neet'll suin be here, Sae divvent freet and whine. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) i. 7 Don't fret, wife, we must do as others do. 1837 E. Howard Old Commodore III. 69 Timothy began to fret upon it. 1842 Ld. Tennyson May Queen (new ed.) Concl. xii, in Poems (new ed.) I. 173 Say to Robert a kind word, and tell him not to fret. 1854 W. Collins Hide & Seek I. vii. 247 Don't forget the letter, sir, for I shan't fret so much after her, when once I've got that! 1865 M. C. Harris St. Philip's xi She went through life..fretting at her lot. 1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 83 In secret, Jasper fretted and fumed. 1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. i. 14 Englishmen were fretting under their enforced abstinence [etc.]. 1899 A. Skeel & W. H. Brearley King Washington 224 In vain the captain fretted over the delay. fret and fume a. To give way to or exhibit anger or irritation. Often in phrase fume and chafe, fret and fume. Also with up. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry wrethec900 wrothc975 abelghec1300 to move one's blood (also mood)c1330 to peck moodc1330 gremec1460 to take firea1513 fumec1522 sourdc1540 spitec1560 to set up the heckle1601 fire1604 exasperate1659 to fire up1779 to flash up1822 to get one's dander up1831 to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832 to have (also get) one's monkey up1833 to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837 rile1837 to go off the handle1839 to flare up1840 to set one's back up1845 to run hot1855 to wax up1859 to get one's rag out1862 blow1871 to get (also have) the pricker1871 to turn up rough1872 to get the needle1874 to blaze up1878 to get wet1898 spunk1898 to see red1901 to go crook1911 to get ignorant1913 to hit the ceiling1914 to hit the roof1921 to blow one's top1928 to lose one's rag1928 to lose one's haira1930 to go up in smoke1933 hackle1935 to have, get a cob on1937 to pop (also blow) one's cork1938 to go hostile1941 to go sparec1942 to do one's bun1944 to lose one's wool1944 to blow one's stack1947 to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950 rear1953 to get on ignorant1956 to go through the roof1958 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 to lose ita1969 to blow a gasket1975 to throw a wobbler1985 the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > be or become irritated [verb (intransitive)] enchafec1380 fume and chafec1522 chafe1525 to fret and fume1551 rankle1582 to lose patience, one's temper1622 pique1664 to have no patience with1682 ruffle1719 to be out of the way (with)1740 echinate1792 nettle1810 to get one's dander up1831 to set up one's jay-feathers1880 hackle1935 to get off one's bike1939 c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 85 As the fire of the burnyng hyl of Ethna burneth only it self, so doth the enuious parson, fret, fume, & burne in his owne hert. 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale 32 The man began to fume and chaafe. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia i. sig. Eiii He..so fret so fumed & chafed at it. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 26 b Though you..chaufe and fume never so much agaynst him. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. iii. 188 The more conspicuously are their evill deeds discovered: which makes them the more fret and fume. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads 187 He..fum'd Both for the loss of the good spear he brake, And of the victory he had presum'd. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii.10 How much he will fret and fume when he comes to discover the roguery. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxii. 314 Nicholas, who had been fuming and chafing until he was nearly wild. 1840 W. Irving Ralph Ringwood in Knickerbocker Mag. Sept. 261 I walked up and down the bar-room, fuming with conscious independence and insulted dignity. 1859 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem II. lxxxii. 44 People who would fume up at any intimation that they were indifferent. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton v The Lieutenant..was fuming about the yard to rout out the ostler's assistants. 1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 83 In secret, Jasper fretted and fumed. 1878 M. E. Braddon Open Verdict I. i. 9 Your wisely selfish man knows his own interest too well to fret and fume about trifles. < as lemmas |
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