| 单词 | be a person's meat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be a person's meat 8. A dead person, a corpse; a dying person, an intended victim, a ‘goner’. Also in later use: a victim of violence. Originally often with allusion to a corpse as food for worms, birds, animals, or insects. to make meat of: to kill; to defeat decisively or easily. to be a person's meat: to be a person's intended victim or prey; see sense 4b.Cf. easy meat at easy adj. 13b, to make mincemeat of at mincemeat n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)] swevec725 quelmeOE slayc893 quelleOE of-falleOE ofslayeOE aquellc950 ayeteeOE spillc950 beliveOE to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE fordoa1000 forfarea1000 asweveOE drepeOE forleseOE martyrOE to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE bringc1175 off-quellc1175 quenchc1175 forswelta1225 adeadc1225 to bring of daysc1225 to do to deathc1225 to draw (a person) to deathc1225 murder?c1225 aslayc1275 forferec1275 to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275 martyrc1300 strangle1303 destroya1325 misdoa1325 killc1330 tailc1330 to take the life of (also fro)c1330 enda1340 to kill to (into, unto) death1362 brittena1375 deadc1374 to ding to deathc1380 mortifya1382 perisha1387 to dight to death1393 colea1400 fella1400 kill out (away, down, up)a1400 to slay up or downa1400 swelta1400 voida1400 deliverc1400 starvec1425 jugylc1440 morta1450 to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480 to put offc1485 to-slaya1500 to make away with1502 to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503 rida1513 to put downa1525 to hang out of the way1528 dispatch?1529 strikea1535 occidea1538 to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540 to fling to deathc1540 extinct1548 to make out of the way1551 to fet offa1556 to cut offc1565 to make away?1566 occise1575 spoil1578 senda1586 to put away1588 exanimate1593 unmortalize1593 speed1594 unlive1594 execute1597 dislive1598 extinguish1598 to lay along1599 to make hence1605 conclude1606 kill off1607 disanimate1609 feeze1609 to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611 to kill dead1615 transporta1616 spatch1616 to take off1619 mactate1623 to make meat of1632 to turn up1642 inanimate1647 pop1649 enecate1657 cadaverate1658 expedite1678 to make dog's meat of1679 to make mincemeat of1709 sluice1749 finisha1753 royna1770 still1778 do1780 deaden1807 deathifyc1810 to lay out1829 cool1833 to use up1833 puckeroo1840 to rub out1840 cadaverize1841 to put under the sod1847 suicide1852 outkill1860 to fix1875 to put under1879 corpse1884 stiffen1888 tip1891 to do away with1899 to take out1900 stretch1902 red-light1906 huff1919 to knock rotten1919 skittle1919 liquidate1924 clip1927 to set over1931 creasea1935 ice1941 lose1942 to put to sleep1942 zap1942 hit1955 to take down1967 wax1968 trash1973 ace1975 c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 624 Þat lam & wurmene mete.] 1632 J. Shirley Changes iv. 51 If you have cut her up, and left her cold meat, I shall lose my stomacke. 1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West i. i, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 714/1 Poor Bill Bent! them Spaniards made meat of him. 1853 D. F. MacCarthy Purgatory of St. Patrick i. ii, in Dramas of Calderon ii. ii. 174 You should be left dead meat on land! 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It l. 357 Come along—you're my meat now, my lad. 1893 W. T. Wawn S. Sea Islanders 43 At first they treated him well, but during the second night, he had overheard the headmen saying it was their intention to ‘make meat’ of him. 1904 ‘O. Henry’ Heart of West 164 A doctor that couldn't tell he was graveyard meat ought to be skinned with a cinch buckle. 1942 W. E. Johns Biggles sweeps Desert v. 66 The way you snaffled my Hun! I call that a bit thick... He was my meat, absolutely, yes by Jingo. 1965 H. Carruth Nothing for Tigers 51 They also have bodies there, And blood on the paving stones,..dead bodies, old meat and bones. 1973 in F. G. Norris & S. J. Springer Men in Exile 45 I'm gonna blow your head off. I'm gonna make you meat. 1992 New Republic 6 Apr. 14/1 There were suspicions that he was being held hostage in the mansion by his fellow Krahn, who had good reason to think they would be dead meat once Doe was gone. to be a person's meat ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > that which is suitable or appropriate the very thing1768 ticket1838 to be a person's meat1875 glove-fit1910 1875 F. H. Sheppard Love Afloat 152 Take your time—you're my meat. 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. vii. 136 ‘Whew!’ I whistles, ‘That's a large order—But I'm your meat.’ 1917 A. G. Empey From Fire Step xvi. 103 I gleefully fell in with the scheme, and told Cassell I was his meat. < as lemmas |
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