| 单词 | on the muscle |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the muscle Phrases P1. ΚΠ 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman iv. 121 So ludicrous..do these ceremonies appear to me that I scarcely am able to govern my muscles. 1894 W. S. Gilbert His Excellency i. 27 If fault or blunder visible I make in this experiment—Control your muscles risible, And check untimely merriment. b. not to move a muscle and variants: not to move in the slightest, to be completely motionless. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] darec1220 (not) to play paw?a1700 not to move a muscle1843 1843 E. A. Poe Tell-tale Heart in Pioneer Jan. 30/1 I kept quite still and said nothing. For another hour I did not move a muscle. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxii. 170 We had plenty of blankets and were warm enough. We never moved a muscle all night, but waked at early dawn in the original positions. 1889 H. O'Reilly & J. Y. Nelson Fifty Years on Trail 322 I stayed quite still and never moved a muscle. 1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness ii, in Youth 128 He died without uttering a sound, without moving a limb, without twitching a muscle. 1950 G. B. Shaw Shakes versus Shav 135 Living actors have to learn that they too must be invisible while the protagonists are conversing, and therefore must not move a muscle nor change their expression. 1995 Church Times 1 Dec. 16/1 In our house we gawped at the television in rapt silence and hardly moved a muscle from beginning to end. P2. U.S. slang. on the muscle. a. Fit and ready for action; (hence) keen or spoiling for a fight; belligerent. ΚΠ 1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 61 On the muscle, on the fight; a fighter; a pugilist... ‘The fellow travels on his muscle’, he presumes on his abilities to fight. 1861 in Civil War Times Illustr. (1972) Nov. 25 There are but few very sick men in the regiment, but a good many kind of run down, but will soon be on their muscle. 1874 J. H. Carter Log Commodore Rollingpin 43 He..dared him to come outside and fight... But all to no purpose. Wilks wasn't on his muscle. 1930 Amer. Mercury Dec. 457/1 On the muscle, angry, quarrelsome. ‘He busts up to me strictly on the muscle. So I let him have it.’ 1975 S. J. Perelman Vinegar Puss 28 If they're on the muscle, you and your agency walk the plank. 1980 N.Y. Times 23 Mar. ii. 21 The worst thing you can do is get on your muscle... Just..say, ‘..Your talking is really spoiling the movie for me.’ b. By or with the use or threat of violence. ΚΠ 1948 I. Shulman Cry Tough! 127 You know that this time it won't be on the muscle? 1952 ‘H. Grey’ Hoods xxxix. 299 They operated as we did, on the muscle. 1971 J. Brown & A. Groff Monkey off my Back 21 In the cases where we didn't [succeed in bribing the police], we would be forced to operate ‘on the muscle’. P3. to flex one's muscles: to give a show of power or strength (literal and figurative). ΚΠ 1912 L. J. Vance Destroying Angel xiii. 160 Tensing and flexing his tired muscles while his eyes shifted quickly from one quarter to another. 1937 J. Steinbeck Of Mice & Men 103 He flexed his muscles against his back and shivered. 1947 R. Allen Home Made Banners iii. 16 It dedicated its soul to the war and flexed its muscles for the war, and then there was a pause. 1969 N. MacCaig Man in my Position 62 I stare at water Frilling a stone, flexing a muscle. 1971 A. Sampson New Anat. Brit. 526 The investment managers..have been worried that, if they were to flex their muscles, the Labour party would begin talking about the nationalisation of insurance. 1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 24 Jan. b6/1 Artists..have flexed enough muscle to come away winners in most of the battles over the $7.7 million program. 1997 Guardian 25 July (Friday Review section) 7/1 Terminator 2 saw Linda Hamilton flex muscles most men have never seen. < as lemmas |
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