单词 | at his own weapon or weapons |
释义 | > as lemmasat (with) his own weapon or weapons c. (To challenge, fight, beat, etc. an adversary) at (with) his own weapon or weapons, i.e. with such as he is expert in. Chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [adverb] at (with) his own weapon or weapons1610 at all, any weapons1768 at the weapons of1781 society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contending [phrase] > with the means used by one's adversary at (with) his own weapon or weapons1610 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] > with one's adversary's weapon of expertise at (with) his own weapon or weapons1610 1610 G. Marcelline Triumphs King James 83 To deale and cope with the envious and perfidious malignity of these calumniators, even at their owne weapons. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. i. 244 Metellus,..fayning flight when hee meant nothing lesse, matcht him at his own weapons. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 145 That he should put a full stoccado vpon me, and go brag when he had done, that he had beaten a master of defence at his owne weapon. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 12 We insist so much upon this Philosophy here,..because without the perfect knowledge of it, we cannot deal with the Atheists at their own Weapon. 1760 S. Foote Minor i. 13 You cockneys now beat us suburbians at our own weapons. 1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper I. 51 This was truly foiling the Devil, at his own weapons. 1781 S. Johnson Congreve in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VI. 17 He is very angry, and, hoping to conquer Collier with his own weapons, allows himself in the use of every term of contumely and contempt. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 239 Their undue predilection for Patristic learning and authority..originated in the wish to baffle the Papists at their own weapons. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xvi. 259 Try no more to meet Mammon with his own weapons, but commit your cause to Him who judges righteously. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xxii. 306 He has chosen this earth because it has been holy. Thus we defeat him with his own weapon, for we make it more holy still. < as lemmas |
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