| 单词 | hab or nab |
| 释义 | > as lemmashab or nab In hab or nab, have or not have. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > have or not have [verb] hab or nab1546 1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 106 Bernardo sayth the Frenchmen will cum roundely to worke to us at ones, and that we shall habb or nab shortly. hab or nab 1. In the phrases hab or nab, hab nab ( habs-nabs), get or lose, hit or miss, succeed or fail; however it may turn out, anyhow; at a venture, at random. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] > randomly or haphazardly into uncertain1382 uncertainlya1387 at adventure (also adventures)c1390 at or on six and sevena1398 auntersa1450 at all adventure (also adventures)1485 by hab or by nab1530 at rovers (rarely rover)c1531 hab or nab1542 hitty-missy1553 rovingly1583 haphazard1600 random1619 unsight, unseena1627 happy-be-lucky1633 cross and pile1648 temerariously1669 happy-go-lucky1672 à tort et à travers1749 randomly1765 chance-medley1822 haphazardly1832 willy-nilly1908 by guess and by God (or Godfrey)1931 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [adverb] > randomly wildlyc1369 random1619 hab nab1664 randomly1765 anyhow1828 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes (1877) 209 Put to the plounge of..habbe or nhabbe to wynne all, or to lese all. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 77/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I The Citizens..shot habbe or nabbe at random vppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 68 Philautus determined, hab, nab, to send his letters. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. vi. 216 But hab or nab [Fr. à toutes adventures] we can never take too much advantage of it. 1639 J. Ford Ladies Triall ii. sig. D2v Better stil Habs-nabs good wincke and choose, if one must have her, The other goes without her. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 202 Cyphers, Astrall Characters..set down Hab-nab, at random. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 350 Such..Sayings are a Discredit to your self..As for Instance,..Hab nab, at a venture. 1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 23 Mar. (1946) 154 It is all Hab Nab at a venture. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) ‘Then you 'ont take no less?’ ‘No, I 'ont, not one varden. ‘Then I'll ab-m, hab or nab!’ < as lemmas |
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