英语词汇“at daggers drawn”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. figurative. daggers' drawing: the commencement of open hostilities. at (or to) daggers' drawing, now at daggers drawn: on (or to) the point of fighting or quarrelling; in a state of open hostility. Also (rarely) at daggers' points.at daggers drawn is found in 1668, but becomes usual only in 19th cent.

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society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase]

in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275

in strife1398

at traversc1448

at issue1474

at a strife1488

at variancea1535

at square1545

at (a) jar1552

at (or to) daggers' drawing1556

at (a) mutiny1567

in (a) mutiny1567

at wrig-wrag1599

at daggers drawn1668

at (or at the, on the) outs1824

loggerhead1831

at daggers' points1857

at swords' points1890

the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [adverb]

at (or to) daggers' drawing1556

at wrig-wrag1599

at daggers drawn1668

at daggers' points1857

at swords' points1890

1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 11^v They..amonge themselues ar wonte to be at daggers drawing.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 267 That countrie was at defiaunce and daggers drawing with the lande of Græcia.

1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 19 The Grandees of the Court were com almost to daggers drawing.

1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 214 Upon this Point, were they at Daggers-drawn with the Emperor.

1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 232 A Quarrel in a Tavern, where all were at Daggers-drawing.

1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 52 Three ladies..talked of for his second wife, all at daggers drawing with each other.

1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. xviii. 35 You will be at daggers-drawing..with every order..of persons in the town.

1837 Lady L. Stuart Introd. Anecdotes in Lett. & Wks. Lady M. W. Montagu's I. 77 This lady inherited such a share of her grandmother's imperial spirit, as to..insure daggers drawing as soon as it should find..opportunity to display itself.

1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxx. 582 Five minutes hence we may be at daggers' points.

1860 R. B. Brough Marston Lynch xxiv. 257 Was Marston still at daggers drawn with his rich uncle?

单词	at daggers drawn
释义	> as lemmas at daggers drawn 2. figurative. daggers' drawing: the commencement of open hostilities. at (or to) daggers' drawing, now at daggers drawn: on (or to) the point of fighting or quarrelling; in a state of open hostility. Also (rarely) at daggers' points.at daggers drawn is found in 1668, but becomes usual only in 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase] in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275 in strife1398 at traversc1448 at issue1474 at a strife1488 at variancea1535 at square1545 at (a) jar1552 at (or to) daggers' drawing1556 at (a) mutiny1567 in (a) mutiny1567 at wrig-wrag1599 at daggers drawn1668 at (or at the, on the) outs1824 loggerhead1831 at daggers' points1857 at swords' points1890 the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [adverb] at (or to) daggers' drawing1556 at wrig-wrag1599 at daggers drawn1668 at daggers' points1857 at swords' points1890 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 11^v They..amonge themselues ar wonte to be at daggers drawing. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 267 That countrie was at defiaunce and daggers drawing with the lande of Græcia. 1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 19 The Grandees of the Court were com almost to daggers drawing. 1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 214 Upon this Point, were they at Daggers-drawn with the Emperor. 1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 232 A Quarrel in a Tavern, where all were at Daggers-drawing. 1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 52 Three ladies..talked of for his second wife, all at daggers drawing with each other. 1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. xviii. 35 You will be at daggers-drawing..with every order..of persons in the town. 1837 Lady L. Stuart Introd. Anecdotes in Lett. & Wks. Lady M. W. Montagu's I. 77 This lady inherited such a share of her grandmother's imperial spirit, as to..insure daggers drawing as soon as it should find..opportunity to display itself. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxx. 582 Five minutes hence we may be at daggers' points. 1860 R. B. Brough Marston Lynch xxiv. 257 Was Marston still at daggers drawn with his rich uncle? extracted from daggern.¹ < as lemmas
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