单词 | lill for loll |
释义 | † lill for lollphr. Obsolete. to give, etc. lill for loll: to retaliate. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > another may act in similar way [phrase] > like for like to give lill for lollc1425 taunt for (pour) taunt1542 quid pro quo1560 tip for tap1573 veny for veny1612 tint for tant1620 c1000 Ælfric Exodus xxi. 25 Sylle lif wið life..wunde wið wunde, læl wið læle.] c1425 Wyntoun Cron. iii. ii. 263 Thai come onone To bind and led away Sampsone, And to quyt hym lyl for lal [v.r. lill for law]. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 336 Scho murdreist this ilk king: And so that tyme scho plaid him lill for law. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 277 b Why may not I as well wt the like lavishnes of tongue, geve lill for loll? a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 33 Lill for loll. Id est, one for another: as good as hee brought. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < phr.c1425 |
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