单词 | let go hang |
释义 | > as lemmaslet (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. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)] rideeOE 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. < as lemmas |
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