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单词 out of edge
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out of edge
a. to set (a person's) teeth on edge: ‘to cause an unpleasant tingling in the teeth’ (Johnson). Also figurative. Also (rarely) out of edge, in same sense.It is not quite clear what is the precise notion originally expressed in this phrase. The earlier expression was to edge the teeth (see edge v.1 3); in the passage Ezek. xviii. 2 the Vulgate has obstupescere to be benumbed.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > be displeased with [verb (transitive)] > displease
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forthinka1225
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there glads (also gains, games) him no gleec1300
unpay1340
offenda1382
to be displeasedc1386
to step or tread on the toes ofc1394
mispleasea1400
unlikea1425
edgec1450
injurea1492
discontenta1513
disdain1530
to set (a person's) teeth on edge1535
displeasure1541
mis-set?1553
dislike1578
to tread on any one's heels or toes1710
flisk1792
unentrance1834
to tread on any one's cornsa1855
umbragea1894
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xviii. 2 And the teeth of sones wexen on egge.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxxii. 1077 A grene grape..smyteþ þe synewes and rootes of teeþ wiþ colde so þat þey maketh teeþ an egge.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxxi. 29 Ye fathers haue eaten a sower grape, and the childrens teth are set on edge.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xx. 576 The same eaten rawe are good against the teeth being set on edge.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 24 They make the teeth an edge.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 428 Dentium stupor, a bluntness of the teeth, when with eating of..sowre things they be out of edge.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 129 That would set my teeth nothing an edge. Nothing so much as minsing poetry.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 7 Set my pugging tooth an edge . View more context for this quotation
1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 162 How come they..to be set on Edge by Acids.
1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 31 The strong have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the weak are set on edge.
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