| 单词 | on all fours | 
| 释义 | > as lemmason (also upon) all fours  1.   on (also upon) all fours: (of a person) on hands and knees; (of an animal) on all four legs rather than just the hind ones. Hence  from (to, etc.) all fours: from (to, etc.) such a position. ΚΠ α.  β. 1698    tr.  A. Brand Jrnl. Embassy from Muscovy 80  				A Man dressed up in a Tigers Skin pass'd through the Room upon all-fours.1719    D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 211  				I was oblig'd to creep upon all Fours.1785    Probationary Odes for Laureatship p. xxxi  				Human beings originally moved on all fours.1814    W. Scott Waverley II. xv. 229  				Edward..could perceive him crawling on all fours .       View more context for this quotation1862    E. H. Verney Shannon's Brigade in India v. 48  				A third ‘pitch’ brings the camel on to all fours.1885    ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus xii. 150  				Leander went down on all fours on the hearth-rug.1939    J. Cannan They rang up Police 158  				The maids, whose caps, as he rose from all-fours, bobbed away from the windows.1968    Boys' Life May 61/3  				He..dropped to all fours and bolted for freedom.2005    Yoga Apr. 41/1  				From the Cat's Pose on all fours, inhale while contracting your abdominal muscles.a1375						 (c1350)						    William of Palerne 		(1867)	 l. 1788 (MED)  				Whilum þei went on alle four as doþ wilde bestes. c1400						 (?c1380)						    Cleanness l. 1683 (MED)  				He fares forth on alle faure. 1509    A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys 		(Pynson)	 f. cxix  				Other creatures that ar vnresonable Goeth on all foure. 1563    2nd Tome Homelyes Eeee.ii.v  				A brute beaste, crepyng vppon all foure. 1611    Bible 		(King James)	 Lev. xi. 20  				All foules that creepe, going vpon all foure [L. super quattuor pedes], shalbe an abomination vnto  you.       View more context for this quotation 1664    T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding  i. iii, in  Comedies & Trag. 81  				I wonder he [sc. the knight's son] doth not go on all four too, and hold up his leg when he stales. 1712    J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iv. 18  				I would crawl upon all Four to serve you. 1789    Analyt. Rev. Feb. 150  				He mounted, on all four, some dark back stairs. 1819    Gregory's New Dict. Arts & Sci. I. at Biped  				Apes occasionally walk on their hind legs,..but their more natural position is on all four. 1880    L. R. Trevelyan Year in Peshawur 9  				The horse he usually rode for an evening airing knew better how to gallop on his fore-legs than on all four. < as lemmas  | 
	
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