| 单词 | blind to the wide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblind (dead, done, out, etc.) to the wide 5. colloquial. to the wide: to the extreme; entirely, utterly. Esp. in blind (dead, done, out, etc.) to the wide: worn out, done-for; defeated; incapacitated; unconscious. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter > utterly all outc1300 out and outc1300 at all devicec1385 to devicec1385 right out?1543 up to the chin1546 up to the eyes1607 upsy Friese1609 up to the (or one's) eyebrowsa1627 all hollow1762 (immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822 all ends up1850 fair and square1870 right spang1884 to the wide1895 a (also one) hundred per cent1911 1895 Ballarat (Victoria) Star 10 Jan. They are wrecked and disastered—‘broke to the wide’—as the turf's classic phrase is. 1905 J. Meredith Learn to talk Old Jack Lang (1984) 12 I rambled over to the rubbity dub and had a pint of oh my dear. In fact I had several and finished up in the dead house, broke to the wide. 1910 Sydney Sportsman 29 June 6/6 For when once he's asleep he is dead to the ‘wide’. 1915 G. Frankau Tid'apa iii. 19 ‘Blind, blind to the wide.’ It was shaky, his hand on the dipper-bar, As the water slopped over, gurgling, from its Ali-baba jar. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words (at cited word) Done to the wide, utterly beaten. 1929 W. J. Locke Jorico 46 ‘You're broke’... ‘To the wide,’ said Nicholas. 1958 F. C. Avis Boxing Ref. Dict. (U.S. ed.) 96 Out to the wide, completely unconscious. 1959 L. Lee Cider with Rosie 90 Wake up, lamb... He's wacked to the wide. Let's try and carry him up. 1963 M. Duggan in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 97 Honest, simple and broke to the wide. 2012 K. Samachai Incubus 165 You know nothing would give me more pleasure than giving you the money, problem is I'm broke to the wide and so is everyone else I know on this farm. < as lemmas |
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