单词 | on a person's top |
释义 | > as lemmason (also in, upon) a person's top (a) on (also in, upon) a person's top and variants: attacking someone physically or verbally; assailing someone, esp. from, or as if from, a position of superiority. In various expressions indicating that a person comes under attack in this way, as in to be on a person's top, to have a person on one's top, etc. Obsolete (chiefly Scottish in later use).Cf. in tops with at Phrases 6f. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > on the attack [phrase] > attacking a person from a superior position (in), on, upon one's topa1513 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxiii. f. cliiiiv He..of Polycie suffered for a season, leste he hadde brought all in his toppe atones. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xii. f. 137 Euery man is in my toppe [L. omnibus sum infestus]. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxxvv To styre vp cruell warres, and set one in an others toppe. 1570 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 8 Strait wais M. Nevil was on mi top. 1638 R. Baillie Let. 22 July (1841) I. 81 If he should irritat at this tyme, when so many are in his topps, his ruine seemed to be inevitable. 1680 Archdeacon Aleson in Cloud of Witnesses (1810) 46 Ye have Kirk and State upon your top. 1710 J. Wilson in Coll. Dying Testimonies (1806) 155 Who would have thought that these builders..would have so soon flown upon one anothers tops? 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Tap To be on one's Tap, to assault, literally; especially by flying at one's head, or attempting to get hold of the hair. 1888 in Sc. Leader 3 May 5/1 It's a most singular thing that Bailie Lawson is always on my top about paltry things of that sort. < as lemmas |
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