| 单词 | on one's hands |
| 释义 | > as lemmason (also †upon) one's hands (also †hand) (i) on (also †upon) one's hands (also †hand): incumbent on one as a charge, burden, or responsibility, or as a thing to be dealt with or attended to. Cf. off one's hands at Phrases 1h(a).to have blood on one's hands: see blood n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > [phrase] > incumbent upon on (also upon) one's hands (also hand)?1529 up to ——1896 ?1529 Proper Dyaloge Gentillman & Husbandman sig. A iijv I haue wyfe and chyldren vpon my hande. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1167 Kerseis, and Cottons, lay on their handes. 1639 T. B. tr. J.-P. Camus Certain Moral Relations in S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 214 Seeing three men upon his hands, what could he doe? 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal ii. 15 These insolent Raskals have turn'd 'em all back upon my hands again. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 78 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 559 That night..The Deil had business on his hand. 1847 D. P. King Speech Gen. Appropriation Bill & Mexican War 9 Not on my hands, nor on my conscience, Mr. Chairman, shall be this ‘damned spot’. 1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob (1891) 158 I have this house on my hands till next October. 1941 K. Tennant Battlers xvi. 165 They would still have a job on their hands clearing out the battlers. 2002 National Geographic Feb. 27/1 It took officials many days to recognize they had a problem on their hands. < as lemmas |
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