单词 | head-breaking |
释义 | > as lemmashead-breaking head-breaking adj. and n. ΚΠ 1614 S. King in J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses sig. A The Poets old, (with much head breaking paine) Did learne of others to compose a verse. 1685 tr. F. M. van Helmont Paradoxal Disc. ii. App. 169 Each Mother might teach her Children to Read, Write, and cast Accounts, and that very naturally, without trouble, head-breaking, or charges. 1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 8 To use your utmost endeavours to promote head-breaking. 1985 Listener 18 Apr. 7/1 Their allegations of old-fashioned head-breaking in a New Generation prison came as no surprise to the ACLU. 1992 R. Brown Before & After i. v. 62 This was a harder question than I had realized... It was like some ultimate philosophical head-breaking first question about the order of the universe. < as lemmas |
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