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单词 lay it on thick
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to lay it on thick
c. to lay it on thick, (figurative) to do something with vehemence or excess. Cf. to lay on 6 at lay v.1 Phrasal verbs. Also, to put (spread, etc.) it on thick.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase]
to go beyond the moon?c1430
to cast beyond the moon1559
to lay on load?1562
to lay it on with a trowela1616
all (his) geese are swans1621
to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667
to lay it on thick1740
to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778
to come it1796
to make a thing about (also of)1813
to draw with the long-bow1823
to pitch it strong1823
to overegg the pudding1845
to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865
to god it1870
to strong it1964
to stretch it (or things)1965
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)]
twig1573
to go at ——1675
to go it1794
to come it1796
to lay it on thick1806
to blaze away1826
bushwhack1837
steam1842
split1844
rustle1882
to work like a demon1884
yank1888
go-at-it1904
to go somea1911
to put a jerk in it1919
to go (also do) one's (also a) dinger1923
to work (etc.) one's ass off1924
to go to town1933
to gie (or give) it laldy1974
1740 Champion 29 Jan. (1741) I. 225 You may lay on Honour and Beauty, and all Manner of Virtues as thick as you please.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. i. 9 Lay it on thick, I beg, while your hand is in.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor x, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 276 Lay it on thick, and never mind expences.
1865 ‘M. Twain’ in Californian 6 May 9/3 Don't you think he is spreading it on rather thick?
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere II. ii. xviii. 112 Henslowe lays it on thick—paints with a will.
1929 A. Christie Seven Dials Myst. xviii. 148 I thought Bundle was laying it on a bit thick myself... But Codders is such an ass he'd swallow anything.
1955 W. C. Gault Ring around Rosa xiv. 165 Now she was putting it on as thick as a starlet at a producer's party.
1976 Times 24 Mar. 3/2 (advt.) If we are laying it on a bit thick it's only because we want you to volunteer out of a mature realisation of what the Army can be like.
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to lay it on thick
6. Phrases. to lay it on thick: see 1c. thick and fast: see 3. thick and threefold adv. (n., adj.) phr.
a. In large numbers; in quick succession; with rapid iteration. archaic and dialect.
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxvj When mo newe Testamentes were Imprinted, thei came thicke and threfold into Englande.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxxxiiij There dwell deuylles thycke and threfolde.
a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) i. sig. A4 How that such clients clustred to thy Court By thick and threefold.
1614 J. Day Dyall 218 Our Antipodes of Rome that so much boast of the Fathers, and how they are theirs thicke and threefold.
1711 tr. S. Werenfels Disc. Logomachys 3 Scoffs and Reproaches come thick and threefold.
1872 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes 163 A..writer..who threw aspersions on his opponents thick and threefold.
b. With vehemence; fervently, ardently, impetuously. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impetuosity > [adverb]
impetuously1485
in flagrant blood1614
thick and threefold1627
head-foremost1697
hot-headedly1777
head first1839
1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 295 So thicke and threefold he falles vpon his deuotion.
c. as adj. Abundant and frequent. Obsolete.
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the world > time > frequency > [adjective]
commona1325
ofta1382
yedera1400
oftena1450
thick?c1450
repeated1577
obvious1586
crebrousc1600
frequent1604
thick and threefold1615
oftentime1876
oft-time1895
1615 J. Day Festivals 302 The Commendations given Anna here are thicke and threefold.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 242 This thick and threefold companionship with [the] birch was not the only rub.
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