单词 | bite in two |
释义 | > as lemmasbite in two b. with adv. compl. to bite away or off: to remove or detach by biting. to bite through, bite asunder, bite in two, etc.: to divide by biting. to bite back: to restrain (speech) by biting the lips. ΚΠ a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2926 Here aldre heuedes he of bot. c1374 Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. vi. 53 Þis free man boot of hys owen tunge, and cast it in þe visage of þilke woode tyraunte. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 138 His hed was bityn fro þe body. c1500 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 155 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 225 Hys teeth grewe so peryllousslye, That the norysshe nypples he bote a waye. a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. A.viiiv, The selfe same hounde..Myght byte asoudre thy throte. 1861 E. Waugh Birtle Carter's Tale 11 His wife bote her tung i' two.] 1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Armgart ii, in Macmillan's Mag. July 169 Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. 1881 C. E. L. Riddell Senior Partner II. xi. 221 Hot and strong was the reply which rose to Robert's lips, but he bit it back. 1923 ‘J. Sutherland’ Garland of Olive xxv, Hunt bit back his sharply released breath. < as lemmas |
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