| 单词 | off one's hands |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoff one's hands (also hand) (a) off one's hands (also hand): out of one's charge or control. Chiefly in to take off a person's hands: to relieve a person of the charge or responsibility of. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > make easy or easier > disencumber or disburden > remove or discharge (a burden) removec1405 unfraught1563 roll1593 depose1617 to take off a person's handsa1629 shrive1814 1627 Dumbarton Burgh Rec. (1860) 12 Gif thay be pleased to tak the half of the bargane aff their hand.] a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) xix. 61 [Some] deale no better with their impotent and old servants than to turne them off their hands to live on a Commons or dye in a ditch. 1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer v. ii He has seemed to make his wench rich, only that I might take her off his hands. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. ii. 187 He hath taken several Poor off our hands . View more context for this quotation 1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 7 A friend of the lady's will take the child off her hands. 1806 Lady Morgan Wild Irish Girl I. ii. 69 Not that I am overly sorry I could not get nobody to take her off my hands at all. 1862 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 269/1 There will be some June days in our lives..when this blood-work is off my hand. 1889 County xxii I have taken him off your hands. 1910 Out West Dec. 57/1 There, that's off my hands. 1937 ‘W. Hatfield’ I find Austral. x. 138 You brought one rat-bag in..so now do me a favour by taking one off my hands. 2001 D. King Burglar Diaries ix. 61 A lot of blokes who give it the large in the pubs about taking ‘X’ ‘Y’ and ‘Z’ off your hands ‘no problem,’ turn out to be bullshitters. < as lemmas |
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