| 单词 | life and limb |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife and limb c. life and limb (formerly also †life and member): esp. in the context of physical danger, as to venture (also risk) life and limb, etc. Cf. also Phrases 4. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] lifeOE life and limbc1275 life and memberc1275 being1521 trouble and strife1908 blood-being1915 the world > life > the body > part of body > [adverb] > every part or all over (from) head to foot (also feet)eOE ich a limbc1275 life and limbc1275 limb and headc1275 limb and landc1275 limb and lithc1275 from face to foot1567 limb and bone1599 limb and wind1697 limb and carcass1841 OE Cynewulf Crist II 776 Utan us to fæder freoþa wilnian.., se us lif forgeaf, leomu, lic ond gæst. lOE St. Margaret (Corpus Cambr.) (1994) 164 Sege me, hwanen is þin lif, Margareta, and hwanan beoð þine liman [L. unde est uita tua uel unde membra tua], and hwu and on hwilce wise is Crist mid þe.] c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 353 Ȝe sculen habben lif & leomen & beon mine leofe freond. c1300 St. Nicholas (Laud) 290 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 248 (MED) Ich ou ȝiue lijf and lime and ouwer chateles al-so. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1918 Of life & o lym my lege men I charge To prestli ȝow apparaill & pas þam agaynes, With all þe hathils & þe heris & þe hiȝe maistris. 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Iiij This letter following, wherein he..offered to gage his gloue with tooth and nayle, to hazarde life and limme if (so occasion serued) to proue the same. 1610 E. Gardiner Triall of Tabacco sig. I 3v Euen with the most valiant, that dare venture life and limbe, that cannot yet endure the letting of bloud. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 235 It is not enough to serve you in those offices, unless they venture life and member. 1698 R. Gould Satyr against Wooing 7 Mad to enjoy, he ventures Life and Limb. a1764 C. Churchill Duellist in Poems (1933) iii. 293 How often, whether wrong or right, Must he in jest or earnest fight, Risking for those both life and limb Who would not risk one groat for him! 1785 J. Hanway Chimney Sweepers xviii The present mode is disgraceful, as employing children to the danger of their limbs and lives. 1836 Lady Willoughby de Eresby in C. K. Sharpe's Corr. (1888) II. 495 Mrs. V..was pitched off..but mercifully escaped with life and limb. 1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel II. 137 All wild and rugged coasts she denounced sweepingly, as dangerous to life and limb. 1904 E. Rickert Reaper 246 These dangers to life and limb never entered the head of the practised moorsman. 1960 Observer 20 Mar. 22 The fact that the search was conducted without loss of life or limb is remarkable. 2008 Evening Standard (Nexis) 11 Feb. Any sudden surge of people, either in panic away from danger, or when attracted towards some ‘happening’, is a potential threat to life and limb. < as lemmas |
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