| 单词 | head and foot |
| 释义 | > as lemmashead and foot (a) (from) head to foot (also feet) and variants: all over or throughout a person's body; figurative completely, thoroughly, through and through. Also head and foot. Cf. from head to toe at toe n. 5d.In quot. 1765 with reference to a full-length portrait. [After post-classical Latin a capite usque ad pedes (Vulgate).] ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > part of body > [adverb] > every part or all over (from) head to foot (also feet)eOE ich a limbc1275 life and limbc1275 limb and headc1275 limb and landc1275 limb and lithc1275 from face to foot1567 limb and bone1599 limb and wind1697 limb and carcass1841 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 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxxii. 378 Þa he arisende wæs, þa gefelde he his lichoman healfne dæl from þæm heafde oð þa fet [L. a capite usque ad pedes] mid þa aðle geslægene beon, þe Grecas nemnað paralysis. a1300 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 3 Fram side to side fro hiued to þe fot..oueral þu findest blod. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3151 Ile man..Heued and fet..lesen fro ðe bones and eten. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xiii. 12 Ȝif..þe rennynge lepre..couere al þe flesch fro þe hed vnto þe feet. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 1035 (MED) Þis ymage, by diuisioun, Was of schap and of proporcioun From hed to foot so maisterly entayled. c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 180 Y fond..a man sittynge, From heed to foot woundid was he. a1500 (c1400) Vision of Tundale (Adv.) (1843) l. 949 Fro hed to fotte ay was gnawyng Scrattyng fretyng fleyng and styngyng. a1560 W. Kennedy Passioun of Christ in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 32 Fra heid to fute þai brak baith hid and ryme. 1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 101 Likewise should Ezra see their whole Monarch, head and foote. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 459 [He] Hath now his blacke and grimme complexion smeered With Heraldry more dismall, head to foote. 1632 T. E. Lawes Womens Rights v. xxviii. 389 At Rome, or Reams, where they vse to belie vs head and foot. 1672 M. A. Cataplus 62 Others in little ease are put And others fast'ned head to foot. 1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) II. iii. 120 He..leaves..to Lord Rothes the King's picture from head to foot. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 269 He overthrew it head and foot. 1803 A. Ellicott Jrnl. viii. 212 Blistered by the rhus radicans (poison vine) from head to feet. 1851 Sartain's Mag. Nov. 382/2 The traveller was a handsome cavalier,..a gentleman from head to foot. 1922 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 15/1 From head to foot she is a figure of elegance. 1977 J. Langone Life at Bottom xix. 202 We all take our clothes off and take a big paintbrush and paint each other head to foot with molasses. 2001 S. Wales Echo (Nexis) 31 Dec. 3 [She] admits she's ‘still quaking from head to foot’ at the thought of meeting the Queen. < as lemmas |
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