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单词 sweat one's guts out
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to sweat (also work) one's guts out
b. Phrases. †to have one's guts about one's ears (a hyperbolical threat); †(to grieve) to the guts: deeply, to the very soul; to have (a person's) guts for garters (a hyperbolical threat); to hate (a person's) guts: to dislike (a person) intensely; to sweat (also work) one's guts out: to work extremely hard.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] > hyperbolical threats
to have (a person's) guts for gartersa1592
society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil
workeOE
swingc1000
to the boneOE
labourc1390
toilc1400
drevyll?1518
drudge1548
droy1576
droil1591
to tug at the (an) oar1612
to stand to it1632
rudge1676
slave1707
to work like a beaver1741
to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828
to feague it away1829
to work like a nigger1836
delve1838
slave1852
leather1863
to sweat one's guts out1890
hunker1903
to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932
to eat (also work) like a horse1937
beaver1946
to work like a drover's dog1952
to get one's nose down (to)1962
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iii. sig. Fv Ile make garters of thy guttes, Thou villaine.
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. iii. sig. H4v Sir, I will garter my hose with your guttes.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 108 They said our guts should be about our ears if we did not vote it.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 140 It griev'd him to the Guts, that they..Should offer such inhumane wrong.
1714 J. Walker Attempt Acct. Sufferings Clergy Church of Eng. ii. 341/2 He hoped to have the Parson's Guts to Garter his Hose with.
1918 H. V. O'Brien Diary 8 July in Wine, Women & War (1926) 140 R— decided on different way, so did it all over again. Great boy, R—. Hate his guts!
1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby i. 9 There were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.
1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner ii. 101 God knows, it's been an uphill job, but I've done my best. I've just sweated my guts out.
1932 N. Coward Words & Music in Play Parade (1939) II. 111 We have to work our guts out...We have to hop and bustle.
1933 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 698 I'll 'ave yer guts fer garters.
1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin ii. v One o' these dys I'll 'ave 'is guts fer garters.
1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 II. 31 You know perfectly well I hate Freda's guts.
1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ii. 35 It is brought home to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock vii. viii. 338 He hates her guts.
1945 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 22 May in Performing Flea (1953) 126 The entire personnel of the cast sweat their guts out..and then the studio discovers that it doesn't own the rights to the novel.
1959 Listener 24 Sept. 495/3 Those who (to use a colloquial phrase that does justice to feelings, especially in war time) ‘hated his guts’.
1967 Guardian 29 Dec. 6/3 Resentment in Service quarters is now focusing on Mr Healey... But those who are demanding his guts for garters are making a mistake.
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to sweat one's guts out
b. figurative. To give forth or get rid of as by sweating; slang, to spend, lay out (money). Also with away, out. In slang phrases: to sweat one's guts out (see quot. 1890); to sweat blood, (a) to exert oneself to the utmost; (b) to be terrified.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend [verb (transitive)]
aspendc885
doOE
spendc1175
spenec1175
dispendc1330
bewarec1374
bestow1377
suckc1380
unpursea1393
warea1417
stowc1440
to lay outc1449
spone1456
expend1477
expend1484
impendc1486
ware?a1513
deburse?1529
disburse1530
defray1543
unburse1570
outlay1573
to lay forth1584
sweat1592
vent1612
dispursea1616
exhaust1616
to set forth1622
waste1639
depursea1648
fence1699
douse1759
shut1797
shift1923
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > emit by exudation > give forth as by
sweat1592
society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil
workeOE
swingc1000
to the boneOE
labourc1390
toilc1400
drevyll?1518
drudge1548
droy1576
droil1591
to tug at the (an) oar1612
to stand to it1632
rudge1676
slave1707
to work like a beaver1741
to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828
to feague it away1829
to work like a nigger1836
delve1838
slave1852
leather1863
to sweat one's guts out1890
hunker1903
to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932
to eat (also work) like a horse1937
beaver1946
to work like a drover's dog1952
to get one's nose down (to)1962
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil
sweatc897
swingc1000
swinkOE
travailc1275
carka1350
tavec1350
to-swinkc1386
labourc1390
byswenke?a1400
tevelc1400
toilc1400
pingle1511
carp1522
moilc1529
turmoil1548
mucker1566
tug1619
tuggle1650
fatigue1695
hammer1755
fag1772
bullock1888
slog1888
to sweat one's guts out1890
schlep1937
slug1943
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > make a great effort
to move (also stir) heaven and earth1580
to swelt one's heart1584
to sweat blood1911
to bust (also rupture) a gut1912
to fall over backwards1932
to bust (also break) one's balls1968
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > be terrified [verb (intransitive)]
fordreadc1175
dreada1240
breec1375
tremblec1475
misdread1597
to sweat blood1924
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. A4 Hath your smooth lookes linckt in some yong Nouice to sweate for a fauour all the byte in his Bounge?
c1610–15 tr. St. Augustine Life St. Monica in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 140 I could not sweate out from my hart that bitternes of sorrow.
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all v. 65 If my shoulders had not paid for this fault, my purse must have sweat blood for't.]
1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions iv. 27 A Set of human Bodies..that could live always in a hot Bath, and neither sweat out their Souls, or melt their Bodies.
1791 T. Beddoes tr. J. K. A. Musäus Pop. Tales of Germans II. 80 His intractable pupil had entirely sweated away his Creed during the night!
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Sweat one's guts out, a vulgar expression, meaning to work very hard.
1911 G. Stratton-Porter Harvester xvii. 405 He just sweat blood to pacify her, but he couldn't make it.
1924 D. H. Lawrence in M. Magnus Mem. Foreign Legion 53 I sweat blood every time anybody comes through the door.
1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xii. 228 It makes one sick to see half a dozen men sweating their guts out to dig a trench.., when some easily devised machine would scoop the earth out in a couple of minutes.
1950 ‘J. Tey’ To love & be Wise xiii. 163 I expect he sweats blood over his writing. He has no imagination.
1961 R. Jeffries Evidence of Accused v. 45 You sweated your guts out for months and finished your book, then the public looked the other way.
1973 W. M. Duncan Big Timer xxi. 138 I was sitting there sweating blood when those damned cops arrived.
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