| 单词 | lay low |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lay (something) low Phrases(In some phrases difficult to distinguish from low adv.)ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > ground > [adverb] sideOE on (also at, of, in) lowc1225 agroundc1325 in levela1400 upon shorec1400 at-lowa1500 sidelong1667 à terre1922 c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 31 (MED) Meiden stont þurh heh lif i þe tur of ierusalem, Nawt of lah on eorðe ah of hehe in heouene. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 119 Þanne ine ous beginneþ þise graces..ine loȝ [Fr. en bas] and sseweþ an heȝ. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11260 (MED) On hei be ioi, and pes on lagh. a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) l. 147 Suche a lyche here is Has layn loken here on loghe how longe is unknawen. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiv. 175 And truly, syrs, looke that ye trow That othere lord is none at-lowe. P2. to lay (something) low. Formerly also †to lay (something) full low. a. To cause to be humble; to abase.In later use merging with Phrases 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Royal) 467 Þeo þet heieð ham her leist ham swiðe lahe. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1649 I shal hem laye ful lawe þat sett so litil of myn awe. 1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye ii. sig. b.4v It..shal thruste downe the proude countenaunce of man, & shal laye ful lowe his highe lokes. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lx. 48 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 67 [God] shall lay our haters low. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xiii. 11 I..will lay low the hautinesse of the terrible. View more context for this quotation 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Cor. xiv. 36) Take heed lest God for your arrogancy and high spiritedness lay you low enough. 1769 G. Cockings Arts. Manuf. & Commerce 5 No more our dreaded Naval Warriors ride..To blast Hispania's Pride, and lay it low, And transfix Gaul in total Overthrow. 1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 422/2 On the red field of Leipzic he laid the French pride low—He blew the blast of freedom loud at Leipzic, Oho! 1899 New Outlook 4 Nov. 557 God..Intendeth not for my poor heart's undoing, Nor builds again a joy to lay it low. 2003 J. Harris Holy Fools (2004) iv. 357 That malicious instinct of hers to thwart me at every turn and to lay low my pride. b. To lay out flat; to bring or knock to the ground; to stretch out prone or lifeless. Frequently in passive (often with by). In later use chiefly poetic.In some quots. relating to people, passing into Phrases 2d. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > horizontal position or condition > place in horizontal position [verb (transitive)] > lay flat (on the ground) layc950 lairc1200 streek1303 to lay lowc1405 prostrate1483 prostern1490 spald1513 prostitute1583 prosternate1593 lodge1597 flatten1712 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > specifically a person or animal to lay lowc1405 tumble1487 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 118 She shal be clepid his wenche, or his lemman And..Men leyn þt oon as lowe as lyth that oother. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 2729 (MED) And somme he laide to þe erthe lowe. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1219 For I wene this day to ley the as low as thou laydest me. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. c Schir edmond loissit has his life and laid is full lav. 1613 R. Zouche Dove sig. B5 The west of Asia..Hath seene her Cedars reaching to the Skyes, Layd low by his [sc. the Turk's] fierce sacrilegious stroke. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1239 Go baffl'd coward, lest I run upon thee,..And with one buffet lay thy structure low . View more context for this quotation 1740 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 25 Nov. (1966) II. 212 I bought a chaise at Rome..and had the pleasure of being laid low in it the very second day after I set out. 1776 Miss Edwards Miscellanies 74 Quick as the lightening's flash was struck the blow, Which laid the trembling aidless victims low. 1825 J. Hogg Queen Hynde iii. 151 He beat our warriors on the coast,..Threatening their force to overgo, And lay the towers of Selma low. 1898 Argosy Sept. 226 He engaged the three assassins single handed, and held them at bay until a blow from the butt of a pistol laid him low. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 316 Their mudcabins and their shielings by the roadside were laid low by the batteringram. 1997 S. Rollins Borderlines 17 The wind lays bodies low through mud-clotted grass. c. To lay in the ground; to bury. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)] bedelveOE begraveOE burya1000 beburyc1000 bifel-ec1000 layc1000 to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE tombc1275 gravec1300 inter1303 rekec1330 to lap in leadc1340 to lay to rest, abed, to bed1340 lie1387 to louk in clay (lead, etc.)?a1400 to lay lowa1425 earthc1450 sepulture1490 to put awaya1500 tyrea1500 mould1530 to graith in the grave1535 ingrave1535 intumulate1535 sepult1544 intumil?c1550 yird1562 shrinea1566 infera1575 entomb1576 sepelite1577 shroud1577 funeral1578 to load with earth1578 delve1587 to lay up1591 sepulchrize1595 pit-hole1607 infuneral1610 mool1610 inhumate1612 inurna1616 inhume1616 pit1621 tumulate1623 sepulchrea1626 turf1628 underlay1639 urna1657 to lay to sleep, asleep1701 envaulta1745 plant1785 ensepulchre1820 sheugh1839 to put under1879 to lay away1885 a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 862 When it es in erth layd lawe, Wormes þan sal it al to-gnaw. a1500 (?a1425) Antichrist (Peniarth) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mills Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. App. 496 (MED) Take we the bodye of this swete and ley it loo undre the greet. 1597 R. Tofte Laura xxxv. sig. B7v Farre better had it been I had been dead, And laid full low in latest home, (my graue). a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 164 I would that I were low laid in my graue. View more context for this quotation 1681 J. Shirley Renowned Hist. Guy Earl of Warwick xiv. sig. h3v I fear death has laid him low in some silent Grave, he not having been heard of in these parts for many years. 1777 Westm. Mag. Aug. 440/2 Nature's pride, is dead, Laid low in earth, and all her beauties fled! 1839 M. James Wales 138 With sorrowing heart and tearful eyes, We laid him low, beneath the clod. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xxiv. 35 Use me ere they lay me low Where a man's no use at all. 1997 P. L. Williams True & Authentic Hist. Jenny Dorset (2001) vii. 422 Jenny and I took the boy and laid him low in the grave. She had fetched a blanket from the house to cover him. d. To destroy, overthrow, kill; to defeat, subdue, suppress; (later, in weakened use) to reduce to weakness or inactivity, esp. as a result of illness, misfortune, etc. Frequently in passive (usually with by, with, etc.). ΚΠ c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 6873 (MED) Þis riche, strong cite Schal doun be bete and y-layd ful lowe. 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iv. xxxv. sig. V2 How easie had it beene for thee All the pretendant race t'haue laid full low. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 137 The dire event..Hath..all this mighty Host In horrible destruction laid thus low. View more context for this quotation 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 192 O! had I met the mortal shaft Which laid my benefactor low! 1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Two More Lett. on Catholics vii. 28 Thou shalt be laid low by a joker of jokes, and he shall talk his pleasant talk against thee, and thou shalt be no more! 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 111 Whenever morality hitches the toe, Delinquent with crab-stick shou'd straight be laid low. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxxix. 61 But thou and I have shaken hands, Till growing winters lay me low . View more context for this quotation 1952 B. Malamud Natural 20 A slambang young pitcher who'd soon be laying them low in the big leagues. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. p. ii/3 When the place is snowbound and the staff laid low with flu, the girls take over. 2009 Private Eye 18 Sept. 7/3 Although diners started keeling over in the first week of January, the restaurant carried on business as usual until late February, while hundreds more were laid low. P3. a. to lie low. Formerly also †to lie full low. (a) To lie on or below the ground, or another surface; to lie prostrate or dead, to be buried; to lie down; to crouch, keep low; (of a structure) to be demolished or brought down; to lie in pieces. Also figurative (chiefly in early use): to be humbled, abased, or brought to an abject condition. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dead sleepc950 restOE liea1000 to be deadc1000 to lie lowa1275 layc1300 to be gathered to one's fathersa1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 to sup with our Saviour, with Our (the) Lord, with (Jesus) Christa1400 repose1586 slumber1594 to sup in heaven or hell1642 to turn one's toes up to the daisies1842 to be out of the way1881 to push up daisiesa1918 to have had it1942 RIP1962 the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > be humiliated [verb (intransitive)] to light lowc1225 to lie lowa1275 to carry (also bear) coalsa1529 to eat the (or one's) leek1600 to lose caste1828 to eat dirt1857 the world > space > relative position > posture > assume or hold a posture [verb (intransitive)] > low down to lie lowa1275 the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > lie down or recline [verb (intransitive)] > on or in the ground to lie full lowa1275 a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 47 (MED) Þou, wrecche beli, lists nu ful louwe [c1275 Calig. þu schald nu in eorþe liggen ful lohe]. c1300 St. Edward Elder (Laud) 131 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 50 Him þouȝte it was wel vuele i-do þat he lai so lowe þere, Þat he nere i-bured in herre stude. a1350 (c1307) in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 22 Aȝein þe heþene forte fyhte To wynne þe croiȝ þat lowe lys. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1649 (MED) I sal do þam lij ful lau þat letes sua lightly on min au. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xx. l. 10 That lucifers lordshup ligge sholde ful lowe. c1480 (a1400) St. Luke 80 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 248 Þe angel his trumpe sal blav, & ger þame ryse þat lyis law. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxviiv His auter is broke, and lowe lythe. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 297 The castell als thai gart it lig full law. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 2 Behind the Bus (Lord) bot I liggit law. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N4v Beside a bubling fountaine low she lay. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 52 If he could right himselfe with quarrelling, Some of vs would lie low . View more context for this quotation 1651 C. Cob Sect every where spoken Against ii. 28 We were made to own, and bow, and lie under our conditions as undone Persons, if Mercy help'd not out: Thus we lay low for a time. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiii. 979 But since yon' Rampart by thy Arms lay low, I scatter'd Slaughter from my fatal Bow. 1765 R. Whytt Observ. Disorders Nerv. Hypochondriac vi. 271 Lying low on her face seemed to give her still greater uneasiness than lying low on her back. 1810 P. B. Shelley Posthumous Fragm. M. Nicholson 7 Monarch thou For whose support this fainting frame lies low. 1879 J. D. Long tr. Virgil Æneid ii. 730 Priam by the sword Lies low. 1918 N. L. McClung Three Times & Out xxi. 201 But she did not see us, as we lay low in the scrub. 1933 R. Jeffers Give your Heart to Hawks xi. 71 Your mother, whom I think you love, is just now Lying low between life and death, and you leave her To chase the wind. 1999 M. P. MacDonald All Souls vii. 156 She crawled fast over to Seamus and Steven, kept them lying low, and dragged them over to a corner of the house where there were no windows. (b) To be in a low place or position; (of land or its physical features) to lie at a low level; to lie close to or below sea level. Also: to be of little height. Cf. low-lying n. and adj. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > low position > be low in position [verb (intransitive)] to lie low1567 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 76 To ly rycht law in till ane Crib. 1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 171 It lyeth low, by reason whereof it is much indammaged by flouds. c1714 W. Sutherland in J. B. Hattendorf et al. Brit. Naval Documents 1204–1960 (1993) (modernized text) 268 The Edgar..had a hold abaft the mainmast, flat floored that the weight lay low. 1766 W. Stork Acct. E.-Florida 26 The word swamp is peculiar to America; it there signifies a tract of land that is sound and good, but by lying low is covered by water. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 316 But if the place or Mine lies low, it is usual to say, ‘He is gone to Moor.’ 1873 H. H. Jackson Poems 218 Dead lily-bells lie low, and in their place A rounded disk of pearly pink is seen. 1895 W. C. Wilkinson in G. C. Lorimer People's Bible Hist. (1896) xii. 635/1 We must remember that the lake lies low—680 feet below the sea. 1973 A. Ginsberg Coll. Poems (1988) 609 Hillside grass where mushrooms lie low on Cow-Flops in Queensland. 2000 J. Griffiths Grip on Thin Air 12 Fields lying low beneath Dark and sentinel trees, waiting For night to draw in. (c) colloquial (originally slang). Esp. of a criminal: to keep out of sight so as to avoid detection or attention; to keep a low profile. Also: to bide one's time. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > remain in hiding lurkc1300 to hide one's headc1475 mitch1558 nestle1567 to lie at (on, upon the) lurch1578 to lay low1600 skulk1626 squat1658 to lie by1709 hide1872 to hole up1875 to lie low1880 to lie (also play) doggo1882 to hide out1884 to put the lid on1966 1845 G. Flagg Let. 10 Jan. in Flagg Corr. (1986) 91 To induce the Editors of Papers of both parties to either come out on favor of the new Constitution or if they could not do that to ‘lie low and keep dark’. 1880 J. C. Harris Uncle Remus (1881) ii. 20 De Tar-Baby, she sot dar, she did, en Brer Fox, he lay low. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Mar. 3/1 Mr. N——..has not really been dead at all, but only ‘lying low’ in Canada. 1894 Lady M. Verney Verney Mem. III. 475 Royalists who had lain low were showing signs of life. 1901 Scotsman 2 Mar. 9/4 To that end the opposition lay low. 1937 W. M. Raine Bucky follows Cold Trail iii. 24 ‘You lie low until the car gets to town.’ Young Cameron laughed. ‘I'm not on the dodge, Tim.’ 1998 I. Rankin Hanging Garden (1999) xxii. 260 He's lying low. I've been trying to talk to him for a week. b. to lay low: = to lie low at Phrases 3a (esp. Phrases 3a(c)).For a discussion of this use of lay as a substitute for lie, see lay v.1 43a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > remain in hiding lurkc1300 to hide one's headc1475 mitch1558 nestle1567 to lie at (on, upon the) lurch1578 to lay low1600 skulk1626 squat1658 to lie by1709 hide1872 to hole up1875 to lie low1880 to lie (also play) doggo1882 to hide out1884 to put the lid on1966 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xix. xi. 339 Tancred laid low and trauerst in his fight. a1687 H. More Antidote against Atheism ii. iii. 49 in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) Whether it might not have laid so low in the Earth as never to have been reached. 1833 Life & Adventures Col. D. Crockett xiii. 154 I determined to obey one of our backwoods sayings, ‘Lay low and keep dark stranger.’ a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1883) viii. 70 They may..let their chances slide at cards, but my notion is they're layin' low for bigger hauls. 1894 W. T. Stead If Christ came to Chicago 225 The Democrats laid low and said nothing, for reasons of their own. 1907 M. C. Harris Tents of Wickedness iv. iii. 359 He..laid low for the first passer-by, and slugged him. 1991 P. Marshall Daughters (1992) iii. iv. 296 Just laying low over here in the jungle for a while. Trying to get my strength back after the hurtin' Sandy Lawson and his friends downtown put on me. 2009 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl who kicked Hornets' Nest iv. 62 We decided to lay low when you and Magge were busted—until we knew the lay of the land. P4. to bring low: to bring to a poor or undesirable condition, with respect to health, wealth, strength, or circumstances; to humble; (also) to bring further down, esp. towards the ground or some other downward limit. Cf. low-brought adj. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade [verb (transitive)] vile1297 supplanta1382 to bring lowa1387 revilea1393 gradea1400 villain1412 abject?a1439 to-gradea1440 vilifyc1450 villainy1483 disparage1496 degradea1500 deject?1521 disgraduate1528 disgress1528 regrade1534 base1538 diminute1575 lessen1579 to turn down1581 to pitch (a person) over the bar?1593 disesteem1594 degender1596 unnoble1598 disrank1599 reduce1599 couch1602 disthrone1603 displume1606 unplume1621 disnoble1622 disworth?1623 villainize1623 unglory1626 ungraduate1633 disennoble1645 vilicate1646 degraduate1649 bemean1651 deplume1651 lower1653 cheapen1654 dethrone1659 diminish1667 scoundrel1701 sink1706 demean1715 abjectate1731 unglorifya1740 unmagnify1747 undignify1768 to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819 dishero1838 misdemean1843 downgrade1892 demote1919 objectify1973 the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] sicka1340 distemperc1380 to bring low1530 distemperate1547 unsound1560 sicken1694 qualm1733 sicklify1851 the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > make weak fellOE wastec1230 faintc1386 endull1395 resolvea1398 afaintc1400 defeat?c1400 dissolvec1400 weakc1400 craze1476 feeblish1477 debilite1483 overfeeble1495 plucka1529 to bring low1530 debilitate1541 acraze1549 decaya1554 infirma1555 weaken1569 effeeble1571 enervate1572 enfeeble1576 slay1578 to pull downa1586 prosternate1593 shake1594 to lay along1598 unsinew1598 languefy1607 enerve1613 pulla1616 dispirit1647 imbecilitate1647 unstring1700 to run down1733 sap1755 reduce1767 prostrate1780 shatter1785 undermine1812 imbecile1829 disinvigorate1844 devitalize1849 wreck1850 atrophy1865 crumple1892 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 277 His sone Occe..was byseged at Ȝork, and [i]-brouȝte lowe [L. humiliato]. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 468/1 For all his great bely, this syckenesse hath brought hym lowe ynoughe. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. ii. 7 The Lorde..bryngeth lowe and exalteth. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 2 Quhen he saw the vertues of the Bruse..and how laich [he] was brocht. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xl. 12 Looke on euery one that is proud, and bring him low . View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 30 His father..brought his estate so low, as to want even necessaries. 1706 J. Oldmixon Iberia Liberata 6 Heav'ns dread Vengeance tho its Pace is slow, Strikes Home and brings the proud Aspirer Low. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 294 The nobles of Savoy..have long since been brought low. 1819 P. B. Shelley Julian & Maddalo 601 Perhaps remorse had brought her low. 1859 Christian Repository June 463 I thought I would bring the soaring eagle low! 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust (Boston ed.) II. ii. iii. 176 At one quick blow Shoot, and bring low! 1926 Bee (Danville, Va.) 24 Sept. 4/2 (headline) The prognosticants are brought low. 2011 Church Times 25 Nov. 21/2 It is the latter, Bosie, who is the seductress, and Wilde is Herod, brought low by this need to please the boy. ΚΠ ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 23 (MED) Þe kyng herd þat telle, þat his side ȝede lowe. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 100 (MED) To þe bataile he nam; Roberd side ȝede lowe. P6. to run low. a. Of a source or supply of something, originally something liquid: to be nearly exhausted or used up; to be much reduced; to become scarce, scanty, or meagre. Of a vessel, a person, etc.: to have little of a supply remaining; to be almost out of something (also with on). Cf. senses A. 5b, A. 18. ΚΠ 1580 T. Churchyard Pleasaunte Laborinth: Churchyardes Chance f. 32 When that the wine, hath ronne full lowe, Thou shalt be glad, to drinke the lyes. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 747 To drinke wine lustilie, when the vessell is either newly pierced or runneth low. 1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. E It will bee a reasonable vsefull pawne at all times, when the current of his money falles out to run low. 1658 T. Goodwin Fair Prospect Ded. sig. A3 Her natural strength, and Abilities began to run low, and on Tilt, as it were. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iii. 10 I am afraid our Credit will run low. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 22 Recollection tires, and chat runs low. 1859 J. W. De Forest Seacliff 423 He told me that he really believed I was running low, and that he was going to look elsewhere for money. 1891 Chambers's Jrnl. 21 Mar. 189/2 Funds began to run very low. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iii. 190 The fire was dying then and the paraffin had run low in the lamp. 1988 L. Ellmann Sweet Desserts (1989) 91 I trudged, Lily complained, my money ran low. 2003 New Statesman 7 Apr. 50/1 Human beings began as nomads, upping sticks whenever they ran low on food or water. ΚΠ 1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica 59/2 See me these dice run low. 1638 Come Worldling (single sheet) Ile pay what you call, with me I beseech you be bold: Dice run low or high, My Gold it shall fly. 1649 Duke of Newcastle Country Captaine iv. i. 58 Cator ace they [sc. the dice] run low sir. 1744 Z. Grey in Butler's Hudibras (new ed.) I. 338 The High Fulhams being Dice which always ran high; and the Low Fulhams those that ran low. to lay low b. to lay low: = to lie low at Phrases 3a (esp. Phrases 3a(c)).For a discussion of this use of lay as a substitute for lie, see lay v.1 43a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > remain in hiding lurkc1300 to hide one's headc1475 mitch1558 nestle1567 to lie at (on, upon the) lurch1578 to lay low1600 skulk1626 squat1658 to lie by1709 hide1872 to hole up1875 to lie low1880 to lie (also play) doggo1882 to hide out1884 to put the lid on1966 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xix. xi. 339 Tancred laid low and trauerst in his fight. a1687 H. More Antidote against Atheism ii. iii. 49 in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) Whether it might not have laid so low in the Earth as never to have been reached. 1833 Life & Adventures Col. D. Crockett xiii. 154 I determined to obey one of our backwoods sayings, ‘Lay low and keep dark stranger.’ a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1883) viii. 70 They may..let their chances slide at cards, but my notion is they're layin' low for bigger hauls. 1894 W. T. Stead If Christ came to Chicago 225 The Democrats laid low and said nothing, for reasons of their own. 1907 M. C. Harris Tents of Wickedness iv. iii. 359 He..laid low for the first passer-by, and slugged him. 1991 P. Marshall Daughters (1992) iii. iv. 296 Just laying low over here in the jungle for a while. Trying to get my strength back after the hurtin' Sandy Lawson and his friends downtown put on me. 2009 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl who kicked Hornets' Nest iv. 62 We decided to lay low when you and Magge were busted—until we knew the lay of the land. < as lemmas |
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