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单词 one dare not for one's ears
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one dare not for one's ears
(a) one dare not for one's ears: one dare not for fear of one's safety. Obsolete.In allusion to cutting off a person's ears as a punishment.
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1533 T. More Apologye xl. f. 219v And yet wyll neuer one of them wyllingly make hym selfe an open accuser of the party, nor dare peraduenture for hys earys.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 67 The drones do willingly contain themselues in their own celles..the younger not daring for their eares to breake into their fathers Lands.
1731 E. Bockett Annot. Grub-St. Soc. 17 Time was, he durst not for his Ears, Have run his Rig thus on his Peers.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. ii. 12 And then, what for both my ears I durst not to have done to her, she made to no scruple to seize the stolen letter.
1821 Etonian May 170/2 Fifth form..and lower boys, who dare not for their ears offend the consequential dignity of a sextile.
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