单词 | hip and thigh |
释义 | > as lemmaship and thigh P2. hip and thigh: unsparingly, ruthlessly; completely, utterly. Originally and chiefly in to smite hip and thigh: to attack without mercy or restraint. Also occasionally attributive: thoroughgoing, uncompromising.With allusion to Judges 15:8 (see quot. 1560). In earlier versions of the Bible the phrase is rendered differently: Coverdale (1535) uses ‘shoulder and loins’ (following Luther), while the Great Bible (1539) has ‘leg and thigh’. [After Hebrew šōq ʿal-yārēḵ (in the passage translated in quot. 1560; < šōq (in humans) lower leg, calf, (in sacrificial animals) upper leg, thigh + ʿal upon + yārēḵ body, loins, side, thigh). The semantic motivation of the phrase is uncertain and disputed.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > violently [phrase] of hardc1330 at (the) utterance1480 hip and thigh1560 with a vengeance1568 with a powderc1600 with a siserary1607 full fling1614 with the vengeance1693 like a thousand (also hundred) of brick(s)1836 1560 Bible (Geneva) Judges xv. 8 He smote them hippe and thigh with a mighty plague. 1608 T. Tuke Treasure of True Loue iii. iv. sig. R4 It is a prudent and godly crueltie to kill them all, head and tayle, damme and cubb, and to smite them hip and thigh with a mightie destruction. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 115 Destroy all opposition whatsoever, Hip and Thigh..Root and Branch. 1708 Brit. Apollo 14–16 July Your Adversary I, Will with Iambicks smite You Hip and Thigh. 1781 Weekly Misc. 10 Dec. 262 I'm surrounded by a throng, Who tear me hip and thigh. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women lxvii, in Poems (new ed.) 139 Moreover it is written that my race Hewed Ammon, hip and thigh, from Aroer On Arnon unto Minneth. 1832 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 47 502 A hip-and-thigh reformer..has replied to Lord Nugent. 1857 New Monthly Mag. Feb. 145 The Roman Catholics are naturally proud of their own ‘Reformer’, and somewhat prone to pit him against the more dogmatical, hip-and-thigh cut-and-thrust ultras, as they account them, of the Protestant Reformation. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators I. 255 To smite the heathen hip-and-thigh with the edge of the sword. 1908 R. A. Barr Brit. Rugby Team in Maoriland 75 They have a prevailing wind at Greymouth called ‘The Barber’, which..smites the inhabitants hip and thigh. 1970 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 21 Aug. 6/1 Those who plainly see the national danger and are important enough to do something about it, are smote hip and thigh by smear tactics. 2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Apr. 10/2 (advt.) David Hart smites hip and thigh the peddlers of a ‘new atheism’ that recycles hoary arguments from the past. < as lemmas |
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