英语词汇“out at heels”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. out at heels and variants.

(a) With reference to stockings, socks, or shoes: so as to be worn through at the heels; (more generally, with reference to a person) in stockings, socks, or shoes that have worn through at the heels. Hence: in difficult or straitened circumstances; in a shabby or neglected condition. Cf. down at heel adv. Now rare.

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1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 86 Some riche snudges..go with their hose out at heeles.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 151 A good mans fortune may grow out at heeles .

1664 Duchess of Newcastle CCXI Sociable Lett. vii. 10 The Chiefest persons must mend the world; viz. they that govern the world, or else the world will be out at the heels.

1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. 51 Go look out the Fellow..that walks with his Stockings and his Sword out at heels.

1714 E. Ward Field-spy 16 Shy Leachers steer'd, with Harlots in their Hands, Ill dress'd, with daggl'd Tails, and out at Heels.

1747 Fool (1748) II. 254 My present Situation being, as I may say, a little out at Heels.

1834 Free Enquirer 30 Mar. 180/3 Shoes not worth the mending..and stockings out at heels.

1869 Guardian 17 Mar. 287/3 A parson out at heels and elbows, with a lean wife and ragged children.

1919 M. G. Sabel in Poetry Oct. 22 They say that I am out at heels, And that my coat is shoddy.

1929 J. Steinbeck Cup of Gold iii. 112 Huguenots and Lutherans and Church of England men were poor and out at heel.

1969 Sewanee Rev. 77 319 Rhetoric in our fashionable age is out at heels and many will applaud Mr. Dickey's avoidance of all the old devices.

(b) attributive (usually in form out-at-heels). Wearing stockings, socks, or shoes that are worn through at the heels. Hence: experiencing financial difficulties; poor, shabby. Cf. down at heel adj. Now rare.

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1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. i. 21 He scorn'd in those days to go about like a poor shabby Out-at-heels Devil.

1876 Mt. Alexander Mail (Castlemaine, Austral.) 21 Jan. When they grow old and their day of adversity arrives it is astonishing with what rapidity they develop a shabby and out-at-heel appearance.

1891 Mid-Surrey Times 20 June ‘My luck,’ exclaimed an out-at-heels gentleman, ‘is so atrociously bad, that I believe that if I were to invest in some soap washing would go out of fashion to-morrow.’

1911 Outing Mag. Jan. 468/1 A lonely figure..with a general air of out at heels despondency.

1982 ELH 49 393 In our age of the common man he is the little, chuckling, out-at-heels clown.

单词	out at heels
释义	> as lemmas out at heels b. out at heels and variants. (a) With reference to stockings, socks, or shoes: so as to be worn through at the heels; (more generally, with reference to a person) in stockings, socks, or shoes that have worn through at the heels. Hence: in difficult or straitened circumstances; in a shabby or neglected condition. Cf. down at heel adv. Now rare. ΚΠ 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 86 Some riche snudges..go with their hose out at heeles. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 151 A good mans fortune may grow out at heeles . View more context for this quotation 1664 Duchess of Newcastle CCXI Sociable Lett. vii. 10 The Chiefest persons must mend the world; viz. they that govern the world, or else the world will be out at the heels. 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. 51 Go look out the Fellow..that walks with his Stockings and his Sword out at heels. 1714 E. Ward Field-spy 16 Shy Leachers steer'd, with Harlots in their Hands, Ill dress'd, with daggl'd Tails, and out at Heels. 1747 Fool (1748) II. 254 My present Situation being, as I may say, a little out at Heels. 1834 Free Enquirer 30 Mar. 180/3 Shoes not worth the mending..and stockings out at heels. 1869 Guardian 17 Mar. 287/3 A parson out at heels and elbows, with a lean wife and ragged children. 1919 M. G. Sabel in Poetry Oct. 22 They say that I am out at heels, And that my coat is shoddy. 1929 J. Steinbeck Cup of Gold iii. 112 Huguenots and Lutherans and Church of England men were poor and out at heel. 1969 Sewanee Rev. 77 319 Rhetoric in our fashionable age is out at heels and many will applaud Mr. Dickey's avoidance of all the old devices. (b) attributive (usually in form out-at-heels). Wearing stockings, socks, or shoes that are worn through at the heels. Hence: experiencing financial difficulties; poor, shabby. Cf. down at heel adj. Now rare. ΚΠ 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. i. 21 He scorn'd in those days to go about like a poor shabby Out-at-heels Devil. 1876 Mt. Alexander Mail (Castlemaine, Austral.) 21 Jan. When they grow old and their day of adversity arrives it is astonishing with what rapidity they develop a shabby and out-at-heel appearance. 1891 Mid-Surrey Times 20 June ‘My luck,’ exclaimed an out-at-heels gentleman, ‘is so atrociously bad, that I believe that if I were to invest in some soap washing would go out of fashion to-morrow.’ 1911 Outing Mag. Jan. 468/1 A lonely figure..with a general air of out at heels despondency. 1982 ELH 49 393 In our age of the common man he is the little, chuckling, out-at-heels clown. extracted from heeln.¹int. < as lemmas
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