单词 | strike a blow |
释义 | > as lemmasto strike a blow b. figurative. to strike a blow: to make an attack, take vigorous action. So, to strike the first blow. without striking a blow: without a struggle. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > take vigorous action to strike a blow1790 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > make a beginning in some enterprise beginc1200 to break the ice?1553 to break (the) ground1709 to set (or start) the ball rolling1770 to strike the first blow1849 1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. II. 211 A good blow might be struck here. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxxv. 102 Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 542 Deputies, without whose consent no great blow could be struck. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 261 But neither side dared to strike the first blow. to strike (a person) a blow a. transitive. To deal (a person, an animal) a blow; to hit with some force either with the hand or with a weapon. Also with double object to strike (a person) a blow. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object drepeOE smitec1200 buffet?c1225 strike1377 rapa1400 seta1400 frontc1400 ballc1450 throw1488 to bear (a person) a blow1530 fetch1556 douse1559 knetcha1564 slat1577 to hit any one a blow1597 wherret1599 alapate1609 shock1614 baske1642 measure1652 plump1785 jow1802 nobble1841 scuff1841 clump1864 bust1873 plonk1874 to sock it to1877 dot1881 biff1888 dong1889 slosh1890 to soak it to1892 to cop (a person) one1898 poke1906 to hang one on1908 bop1931 clonk1949 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike with a weapon [verb (transitive)] areach1014 maulc1225 hitc1275 smitec1275 reachc1330 strike1377 to cut over1867 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 14 Al-þough þow stryke me with þi staffe with stikke or with ȝerde. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12429 Þe maister..Gaf iesu wit hand a strak; For he him strak wit na resun, Ded in þe place þar fell he dun. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 283 Socrates walkenge in a cite, and strynken [sic; Trevisa evel i-smete on the heed; L. colapho percussus] of a symple felowe. 1556 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 255 Thomas Cartwright..offered to stricke with the mase certen of the defendants. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Matt. xxvi. 68 And other smote his face with the palmes of their hands, saying, Prophecie vnto vs O Christ: who is he that strooke thee? a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. E Cursed be hee that stroke his holinesse a blow [on] the face. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 140 Laying 'em flat on their Belly, and stricking them with a Rope across the Breech. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i 'Till he yowl'd sair she strak the poor dumb tyke. 1824 Examiner 539/2 [He] struck the boy a violent blow. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlix. 435 You may strike me if you like, Sir, or hit any cruel blow. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xxxviii. 44 Glanydon..forgetting that he was a captive, had once struck in the face a Prætorian officer who insulted him. < as lemmas |
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