单词 | head to heel |
释义 | > as lemmas(from) head to heel (also heels) (a) (from) head to heel (also heels) and variants: = (from) head to foot (also feet) at Phrases 3f(a). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > thoroughly > from beginning to end or through and through to the boneOE through and throughc1225 out and outc1300 from top to tail1303 out and inc1390 (from) head to heel (also heels)c1400 (from) head to foot (also feet)c1425 from top to (into, unto) toec1425 to the skin1526 to one's (also the) finger (also fingers') ends1530 from first to last1536 up and down1542 whole out1562 to the pith1587 to the back1594 from A to (also until) Z1612 from clew to earing1627 from top to bottom1666 back and edge1673 all hollow1762 (all) to pieces1788 from A to Za1821 to one's (also the) fingertips1825 to one's fingernails1851 from tip to toe1853 down to the ground1859 to the backbone1864 right the way1867 pur sang1893 from the ground up1895 in and out1895 from soda (card) to hock1902 OE Glosses to Lorica of Laidcenn (Harl. 585) in E. Pettit Anglo-Saxon Remedies, Charms, & Prayers (2001) I. 54 Ut a plantis usque ad uertice[m] nullo membro meo..egrotem : þætte from þæm hælum [eOE Cambr. Ll.1.10 ilum] oð ðæs heafdes heannesse nængum lime minum..ic geuntrumige.] c1400 Life St. Anne (Minn.) (1928) l. 2007 Our lamed childe es now hale Ffro hys hede to hys hele. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) l. 15856 He has rent and ryches ryfe and hape and hele fro hed to heyle. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 118v Ffro the hede to þe hele horit as a capull. 1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vi. sig. S.viv Al from head to heles Doth grefe and sicknesse sore sustaine. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells viii. 513 This well fed Groome..Begot you then all ouer, head to heele. 1781 W. Cowper Anti-Thelypthora 184 So polished and compact from head to heel. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Battle Lake Regillus in Lays Anc. Rome 115 And many a curdling pool of blood Splashed him from heel to head. 1850 G. Rae Internal Managem. Country Bank xxiii. 196 To tie a Manager head to heel with the cords of responsibility. 1886 M. W. Hungerford Lady Branksmere i. iv. 96 A tall figure..clothed from head to heel in sombre garments. 1921 W. H. Blake tr. L. Hémon Maria Chapdelaine iv. 64 He was from head to heel of a piece with the soil. 1982 Washington Post 20 Aug. c4/2 In marched a tall, slender woman swathed head to heel in about 30 yards of cloth of gold. 2012 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 16 Dec. a6 The more general question of whether it's acceptable in Canadian public places that women cover themselves from head to heels. < as lemmas |
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