| 单词 | like grim death |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslike grim death b. colloquial. Also like grim death. Frequently with to hold on, to hang on, etc.: with great determination or tenacity.Originally with allusion to death personified; cf. sense 1c. ΚΠ 1786 R. Burns Poems 25 Then Burnewin comes on like Death, At ev'ry chap. 1804 Lit. Mag. & Amer. Reg. June 178/1 Some one, in order to illustrate the obstinacy with which a bailiff adhered to an ill-fated debtor, observed, that he stuck to him like grim Death to a dead cat. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 5/1 Hadding on by the rail like grim death. 1855 J. A. Maitland Watchman xxix. 210 That ere foolish idee o' mine clung fast hold on to me like grim death to a marlin' spike. 1867 Illustr. Mag. 23 118/1 He clung to the poacher like grim death. a1903 B. Herford Serm. Courage & Cheer (1908) i. 2 An encouragement to them to persevere like grim death. 1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club ix. 112 If ever you see him again,..freeze on to him like grim death. 1964 Life 27 Nov. 112/3 You hung on like death and hoped that your end would be painless. 2007 C. Stross Halting State (2008) 140 She ducks, still holding on to her hilts like grim death. < as lemmas |
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