| 单词 | one's last shift |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone's (or the) last (or †utter) shift d. one's (or the) last (or †utter) shift: the last resource. to be at (†under) one's last shift(s: to be at the last extremity, in the greatest difficulty; so to put, drive, reduce, etc. to the last shifts. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > point of greatest difficulty knotc1386 one's (or the) last (or utter) shifta1604 hump1914 crunch1970 the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > most extreme predicament one's (or the) last (or utter) shifta1604 last ditch1706 the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > reduce to straits enstraita1500 plungea1513 to put or drive to a (or the) shift or shifts1553 to put (one) to (upon) his trump or trumps1559 to drive (a person) near1594 to put, drive, reduce, etc. to the last shiftsa1604 to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to ita1616 press1672 pinch1693 push1761 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient > ultimate one's (or the) last (or utter) shifta1604 the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > be in difficulties or straits > be in desperate difficulty one's (or the) last (or utter) shift1733 beam-ends1773 hang1874 a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 109 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) You see mee..now extremely driven to my utter shifts. 1638 in Hamilton Papers (1880) 15 The consideration of thes dangers, and not beeing abill longer to satisfie them with words draufe me to my last shifts. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 276 Whoever makes use of Chalk for a Dressing, I think, is under the last Shift. 1796 Ld. Nelson Let. 18 July in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 216 They are at their last shifts. < as lemmas |
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