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单词 let go hang
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let (it, etc.) go hang
a. Of a person: to be suspended on (also upon) a cross, gibbet, gallows, etc.; to suffer death in this way; esp. as a form of punishment. Also as an imprecation: cf. 3c. Now usually in to go hang: to go and be hanged; to ‘go to the devil’; to be dismissed or rejected; frequently let (it, etc.) go hang.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)]
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hangc1000
anhangc1300
wagc1430
totter?1515
to wave in the windc1515
swing1542
trine1567
to look through ——?1570
to preach at Tyburn cross1576
stretch?1576
to stretch a rope1592
truss1592
to look through a hempen window?a1600
gibbet1600
to have the lift1604
to salute Tyburn1640
to dance the Tyburn jig1664
dangle1678
to cut a caper on nothing1708
string1714
twist1725
to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786
to streek in a halter1796
to straight a ropea1800
strap1815
to dance upon nothing1837
to streek a tow1895
the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (intransitive)] > be dismissed or rejected
to go whistle1453
to go hanga1616
pluck1772
to be left in the basketa1845
to go (also be thrown, etc.) out (of) the window1913
to be out (of) the window1938
to get knotted1963
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > be sent away or dismissed
to go to Hong Kong1849
go1858
to go hang1881
to take a walk1888
to get the gate1918
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 256 Þes halga Hælend hangað her unscyldig.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 56 He [sc. our Lord] as he hongede mahte habben hare breað..amidden his nease.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 218 Þanne hit behoueþ þet hi yelde: oþer þet hi hongi. Vor ase me zayþ: ‘oþer yelde: oþer hongi’.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12218 Worthi he war on gebet hang.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxii. 481 He shall see me hange shamfully.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. i. 67 If I hang, ile make a fat paire of Gallowes. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 59 Go hang sir, hang: tell me of that? Away. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 50 She..Would cry to a Sailor goe hang . View more context for this quotation
1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 360 Wretches hang that Jury-men may dine.
1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 24 Betting which knave would 'scape, which hang.
1881 C. Gibbon Dead Heart v ‘The Count..may go hang for me.’
1921 R. Hichens Spirit of Time xii. 203 Hold on to the best in yourself and let all the rest go hang.
1937 J. Betjeman Continual Dew facing 18 Other cars all go hang My little bus is enough for us.
1960 M. Sharp Something Light xix. 174 Louisa instantly resolved to let the room go hang.
1973 Physics Bull. June 345/3 It would even be proper for SRC to decide to support (say) only 20 post~graduate schools of chemistry and to let the rest go hang.
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