| 单词 | take that! |
| 释义 | > as lemmastake that! b. take that! (also †have that!): used in delivering a blow, making an insulting gesture, etc. Sometimes followed by and that (once or repeated). Π c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13995 Þa seide Modred Haue þat. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 16290 Wiþ his hond a buffet: he ȝaf ihesus..he seide..take þat to teche þe lore. a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 3118 (MED) For þi coueytyse haue þou þat! I schal þe bunche wyth my bat. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxii. 275 2 Tortor. Now fall I the fyrst To flap on his hyde... 3 Tortor. Haue att! 1 Tortor. Take þou that! a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 23 Thinkst yu I iest? hold, take thou that, & that . View more context for this quotation 1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village iii. ix Would you brazen me, too? Take that (boxes him). 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xii. 154 I must do my duty, sir..so take that—and that—and that—(thrashing the man with his rattan). 1846 W. E. Forster in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) I. vi. 186 The fact is, they will soon wear nothing. There; take that! 1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 81 ‘Then take that!’ and he smacked the brute's head. 1992 N. Hornby Fever Pitch 58 Making an unambiguous take-that-you-provincial-fuckers V-sign. < as lemmas |
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