| 单词 | the whole world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe whole world Phrases P1. With reference to the duration of the world: as long as the (also this) world lasts (or stands) and variants. Now somewhat archaic. [Compare Old Icelandic meðan heimrinn stendr, and various post-classical Latin phrases, including quamdiu mundus iste stat as long as this world stands (5th cent. in Jerome), quamdiu durat mundus (also quamdiu mundus durat) as long as the world lasts (12th cent.; a1274 in Thomas Aquinas).] ΚΠ OE Genesis A (1931) 1542 Þæt ic monnum þas wære gelæste, þenden woruld standeð. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10515 Iesu crist. Winndweþþ hiss corn..Whil þatt tiss weorelld lassteþþ. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 33 (MED) Gif ðu liuedest swa lange swa ðes woreld ilast, and æure þoledest pine, ne mihtest ðu of-earnin swa michel eadinesse swa ðe is behaten. c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Bodl. 34) 542 Þu schalt habben..a temple þet schal a stonden hwil þet te worlt stont. c1450 Siege Calais (Rome) in PMLA (1952) 67 894 (MED) O oonly god..Save Calais..That euer it mot wel cheve Vnto the crovn of England, As longe as the world shal stonde. a1500 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Trin. Dublin) l. 2255 Yf it worth sall to wy whil þe world standes, Oure burgh ayayn to be beld þat brytynd is to noght? 1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. x. 36 He sall with vs rest, And we with him, sa lang as warld may lest. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Cor. viii. 13 If meate make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth. View more context for this quotation 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 80 If any of these come out So long's the world doe last: Then credit not a word Of what is said and past. 1710 W. Wycherley Let. 1 Apr. in Corr. A. Pope (1956) I. 80 By preserving his Life, he can only make him live about threescore or fourscore Years; but by preserving his Reputation, he can make him live as long as the World lasts. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 332 I say the pulpit..Must stand acknowledg'd, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. 1847 H. W. Herbert Miller of Martigne 46 Girls will be girls, I fancy, so long as the world lasts; and men will be fooled by them! 1884 Graphic 23 Aug. 186/3 Teetotallers and moderate drinkers will probably be at war on this point..as long as the world lasts. 1918 Scribner's Mag. 63 408/2 As long as the world lasts it will be a punishment to be a German. 1924 Amer. Mercury Nov. 257/1 The two peoples will never understand each other as long as the world stands. 2006 J. I. Packer & C. Nystrom Praying v. 145 These words..are as timely today as when he first put them on paper and will continue so as long as the world lasts. P2. In various phrases with the sense ‘for ever and ever, for all time, throughout eternity’. Chiefly in religious context or with religious connotation. [After various post-classical Latin phrases containing saeculum (see secular adj. and n.), e.g. usque in saeculum, in saeculum saeculi, in saecula saeculorum (see in saecula saeculorum adv.), all attested in the Vulgate (see examples in quots.), in turn after various Hellenistic Greek phrases containing αἰών aeon n. (e.g. εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα , εἰς αἰῶνα αἰῶνος , ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος τῶν αἰώνων ) in the Septuagint, which render various biblical Hebrew phrases containing ʿōlām age, aeon, long duration (in post-biblical Hebrew also ‘world’). ΚΠ OE Cambridge Psalter (1910) xxvii. 9 Extolle illos usque in seculum uel in eternum : uppahefe hi oð on worulde. OE Paris Psalter (1932) li. 7 Ic þonne swa elebeam up weaxende on godes huse ece gewene, and on milde mod mines drihtnes, and me þæt to worulde [L. in aeternum et in saeculum saeculi] wat to helpe. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) xxi. 48 Se ilca gesette unawendendlicne sido & þeawas & eac gecyndelice sibbe eallum his gesceaftum..; þa nu sculon standan to worulde. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cxiii. 19 (MED) Blisce our Lord nou and þanne vnto þe worled [L. in saeculum]. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxi. 6 He schall be to hym a seruaunt in to þe world [L. in saeculum]. c1425 (c1400) Prymer (Cambr.) (1895) 74 He ordeynede þo þingis in-to þe world, & in to þe world of world [L. in aeternum, et in saeculum saeculi]. ΚΠ OE Cynewulf Crist II 778 Si him lof symle þurh woruld worulda, wuldor on heofnum. OE Lambeth Psalter xlvii. 15 Hic est deus deus noster in aeternum et in saeculum saeculi : þes is god ure god on ecnesse & on weorlda weorl. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 63 (MED) An oðer..is icleped..hali dradnesse, ðe æure scal ilasten, on worelde woreld. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xlvii. 13 (MED) Here is our God wyþ-outen ende in þe worled of worldles [L. in saeculum saeculi]. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxxiv. 10 Desolat shal [his land] be in to worldus of worldis [L. in saecula saeculorum]. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lx. 8 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 191 Swa salme saie sal I, þe same In werld of werld vnto þi name. c1425 (c1400) Prymer (Cambr.) (1895) 74 (MED) He ordeynede þo þingis in-to þe world, & in to þe world of world [L. in aeternum, et in saeculum saeculi]. c1425 (c1400) Prymer (Cambr.) (1895) 1 As it was in þe bigynnyng, & now, & euere in-to þe worldis of worldis. amen! R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 131 To qwhome be wyrschip & ioy..in warld of warldys. Amen. 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. i. 4 Thorough worlde of worldes: whiche signifieth for euer. ?1591 H. Barrow Brief Discouerie False Church 245 Thy throne Ô God to the world of worldes. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > eternity [phrase] > eternally or for ever (on, to) worulde (a) butan endeOE on (also in, þurh, geond) ealra worulda woruldOE (baith) heir and hyne1567 when (also till, until) hell freezes (over)1832 to hell and gone1863 OE Paris Psalter (1932) cii. 16 Þin mildheortnes, mihtig drihten, þurh ealra worulda woruld [L. ab æterno, et usque in æternum] wislic standeð. OE Wulfstan Luke on Last Days (Hatton 113) 127 Him symle sy lof & wuldor in ealra worulda woruld a butan ende, amen. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 177 Uton we..þæs blisses brucæn mid þam heofenlice Kynge, þe leofeð and rixæð on alræ worldæ world. a1250 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Titus) (1981) l. 1724 (MED) Beo he, ase healend, ihered & iheiet, in alre worlde world. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jude ii. 25 Bi Jhesu Crist..[be] glorye..now, and in to alle worldlis of worldlis [L. in omnia saecula saeculorum]. c1425 (c1400) Prymer (Cambr.) (1895) 16 (MED) Glorie be to þee, lord..in euerlastynge worldis. a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) l. 331 (MED) Loue god euer of al his lone And wirchip him werld al-wais. c1450 Bk. Gostlye Grace (1979) 104 (MED) Y magnifye the..for alle goodnes whiche thyne glorious godhede..haffes wrought in vs..into alle the worldys. a1500 Gospel of Nicodemus (Harl. 149) (1974) 119 (MED) Thys ys he that ys oure God yn thys worlde and yn alle worldes. a1500 Gospel of Nicodemus (Harl. 149) (1974) 116 (MED) Sathan schal be yn thy pooste for euyrlastynge worldes. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. xii. 411 Eternall God, which liuest and reignest euer one God through all worlds, Amen. 1697 J. Lead Fountain of Gardens II. 390 Your true Labour herein shall have such success, as you may bring great acclamation, and renown to your Lord and Saviour, through all Worlds. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 28 I heard his deep ‘I will’, Breathed, like the covenant of a God, to hold From thence thro' all the worlds. d. (a) world (occasionally worlds) without end. In later use also hyperbolically: endlessly, eternally, for ever. In Old English (and early Middle English) also †(on, to) worulde (a) butan ende. [Frequently used to translate the post-classical Latin phrases saeculum saeculi , saecula saeculorum , etc. (see Phrases 2); especially with reference to the final words of the doxology (compare quot. 1549), after its post-classical Latin text sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum , lit. ‘as it was in the beginning, and now, and always, and in the ages of ages’, itself after Hellenistic Greek καὶ νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων , lit. ‘now as well as always and into the ages of the ages’. In a biblical context the phrase world without end is first attested translating post-classical Latin saeculum saeculi (and variants) in Coverdale's Bible (compare e.g. quot. 1535; also used in his introduction) and also appears in the King James Bible, but quot. lOE (which does not translate a known Latin original) shows that an equivalent phrase was used in one English version of the doxology at an earlier date. Quot. OE2 at Phrases 2c may represent a semantic link between the Latin and English phrases. Compare also Anglo-Norman secle sanz fin (c1240 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > eternity [phrase] > eternally or for ever (on, to) worulde (a) butan endeOE on (also in, þurh, geond) ealra worulda woruldOE (baith) heir and hyne1567 when (also till, until) hell freezes (over)1832 to hell and gone1863 OE Christ & Satan 314 Þær heo mid wuldorcyninge wunian moton awa to aldre, agan dreama dream mid drihtne gode, a to worulde a buton ende. lOE Prayer (Bodl. 180) in W. J. Sedgefield King Alfred's Boethius (1899) 149 Si þe lof & wylder nu & a a a to worulde buton æghwilcum ende. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 25 (MED) Þe lauerd..is feder and sune and hali gast, wuniende and rixlende on worlde a buten ende. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 139 Þeo þe hefden of erned þe pinen of helle world aa buten ende. c1300 St. Swithun (Harl.) l. 109 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 46 (MED) Þat vuel..ne schal no leng ileste Ac þu worst þerof hol and sound, wordle wiþouten ende. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 94/1 Many benefetes ben gyuen to thonour of our lord Jhū crist whiche is blessed world wythouten ende. Amen. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 25 I must nedys weynd, And to the dwill be thrall, Warld withoutten end. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xliv. 18 I wil remembre thy name from one generacion to another: therfore shal the people geue thankes vnto the, worlde without ende [L. in saeculum saeculi]. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Mattyns f. i As it was in the begynning, is now, and euer shallbe world without ende. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxi. 184 This man..thinks by talking world without end, to make good his integrity. 1753 in Life Ld. Hardwicke (1847) II. 499 Ld Chesterfield writes Worlds without End. 1823 Morning Chron. 30 May 4/2 ‘Why,’ quoth her friend, ‘do not they say every Sunday at church, “which was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end”?’ 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xiv. 22 My heart and soul and senses, World without end, are drowned. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon x. 213 She'd got it firmly into her head that to be married to her white-headed boy meant an untroubled elysium, world without end. 1991 J. Connor Distortions 95 And so it goes, world without end, amen. (b) As adj. (with hyphens). Perpetual, everlasting, eternal. rare. ΚΠ 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 781 A time me thinkes too short, To make a world-without-end bargaine in. View more context for this quotation 1881 Morris Mackail's W.M. (1899) II. 34 This world-without-end-for-everlasting hole of a London. 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 16 The smell of bacon and the sweetish breadcrumb smell seem to speak the world-without-end language of infancy. (c) As n. (with hyphens). Eternal existence, endlessness, eternity. rare. ΚΠ 1888 Advance (Chicago) 20 Dec. 831 A city pastor, with a world-without-end of things to be done. 1905 F. Young Sands of Pleasure i. v Small wonder if the embodiment of the world-without-end should prove no encourager of man's happiness! ΚΠ c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 404 (MED) Ha..schal ifinden him aa swetture & sauurure, from worlde into worlde, aa on ecnesse. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms. lx. 14 Blessid the Lord God of Irael; fro the world, and in to the world [L. a saeculo, et usque in saeculum], be it do. 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 4588 (MED) Þe holy gost..Now lyuyst & regnyst intermynabylly..From werd in-to werdys euere-more, amen. P3. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) x. 263 Hi woldon hine [sc. Christ]..ahebban to cyninge, þæt he wære heora heafod for worulde. OE St. Eustace (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1900) II. 190 Wæs sum cempena ealdorman..æfter worulde swiðe æþelboren. OE Ælfric Homily: De Duodecim Abusivis (Corpus Cambr. 178) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 302 Menig mann..is earm for worulde & ungesælig for gode. OE Agreement between Bp. Wærferð & Æðelwold (Sawyer 1441) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 24 Heo þa þær smeadan hu heo ryhtlicast heora þeodscipe ægþer ge for Gode ge for weorlde gehealdan mehton. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. viii. 42 Wæs se mon monðwære & for weorulde god. lOE Revival of Monasticism in D. Whitelock et al. Councils & Synods (1981) I. 153 Gif heora hwilc, mid deofles costnunge beswicen, for Gode oþþe for worulde gyltig biþ. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 143 We alle moten on þis haliȝe tid æȝþer ȝe for Godæ ȝe for weorlde þe bliþelycor lybbæn. b. in (also †o, †on) world: in this life, on earth. Now rare (archaic in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adverb] > in this life in (also o, on) worldOE hereaway1639 OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) iv. xxiv. 332 Heo wolde hire eðel forlætan & eall, þæt heo on weorulde [eOE Tanner for worulde] hæfde [L. omnibus quaecumque habuerat]. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily De Duodecim Abusivis (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 111 Vnclene wif þoleð scome on weorlde [OE Corpus Cambr. 178 for worulde] and unclene wif bið unwurð on liue. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11715 Þat nuste he neuere on weorlde hu feole þusend, þer weoren. a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) l. 94 An wirm is o werlde, wel man it knoweð: Neddre is te name. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1270 (MED) In warld was non so wiis Of craft þat men knewe. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 871 Wheþen in worlde he were, Hit semed as he m[o]ȝt Be prynce. ?1457 J. Hardyng Chron. (Lansd.) in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1912) 27 740 This book..Whiche no man hath in worlde bot oonly ye. 1508 Devise Prowes & Eke Humilitee in W. Dunbar Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bivv Full mony a gudely syre That efterward in warld had newir plesance. 1593 T. Churchyard Challenge 170 To such as still, in world did me deceaue, I wish they may, beware of such like trap. 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iv. 41 The purging of them from pride and the other pollutions and corruptions that are in world through lust. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal v. 57 Sir Peter is one of the most imprudent men in world, for here he comes walking as if nothing had happened. a1864 J. Clare Later Poems (1984) II. 1083 Love wi me and be my ladie And we love on in world sae wide. 1923 C. M. Doughty Mansoul (rev. ed.) i. 14 Trees grow there beyond, All other than today in World be found. P4. in the world: on earth, in existence; (also) of all, at all. [Compare classical Latin in mundō.] a. As an intensifier following a superlative or an inclusive or exclusive expression (as not a care in the world, etc.). Cf. earth n.1 Phrases 2a.In early use also †on world, †in (a) world. nothing in the world: see nothing pron., n., adv., and int. Phrases 6b. ΚΠ OE Laws: Grið (Nero) xxv. 472 On hwam mæg huru æfre ænig man on worolde swyðor God wurðian þonne on cyrcan? c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11013 Na mon on worlde swa wod no iwurðe..þat his grið bræke. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 181 So clene lond is engelond.., Þe veireste men in þe world þer inne beþ ibore. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5131 Thretti goblettis of gold, þe grattest in þe worde. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 240 Mar to prys Than all the gold in warld that is. c1500 Melusine (1895) 27 He had nat mow say one only word for all the gold in the world. 1589 R. Lane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 739 The Riuer of Choanoak, and all the other sounds,..shewe no currant in the world in calme weather. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 67 And I had but one peny in the world thou shouldst haue it. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 2 The least winde i' th' world wil blow them downe. View more context for this quotation 1694 F. Atterbury Christian Relig. Increas'd 14 The Gospel of Christ, at its Earliest appearance, had all the Probabilities in the World against its Success. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 142. ⁋7 It is the hardest thing in the World to be in Love, and yet attend Business. 1790 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. 23 Thats aw spite, nowt ith Ward else. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. viii. 98 Here is every body in the world that I wish to see, except yourself. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 257 He was..the most retiring man in the world. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xxvi Hartley enjoyed his dinner..as if he had not a debt in the world. 1936 M. Allingham Flowers for Judge vii. 125 Not a care in the world except Mr. Brande's neglect and mental cruelty to her. 1954 A. Thirkell What did it Mean? 122 It will do him all the good in the world to feel he is someone and get a bit of importance. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Nov. ii. 4/5 Arion Press..produces some of the most beautiful..handprinted books in the world. b. Intensifying an interrogative word or phrase: see how adv., int., and n.3 Phrases 4c and what pron., adv., int., adj.1, conj., and n. Phrases 1i, etc. Cf. earth n.1 Phrases 2b. ΚΠ eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) xxviii. 41 Hwa is on weorulde þæt ne wundrige fulles monan, þonne he færinga wyrð under wolcnum wlites bereafad, beþeaht mid þiostrum?] 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 467/2 He wyste nat in the worlde what to do. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 11 He knew not what in the world to doe. 1614 J. Day Dyall Ep. Ded. sig. ¶2v Hee..could not tell where in the world he had laid it. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. iv. 26 What in the world should make me now deceiue? View more context for this quotation 1735 H. Fielding Universal Gallant iii. i. 35 Now don't I know what in the World to do with my self. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) III. xvi. 141 Where in the World did you come by all this Learning? 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 198 And if they don't know how to do this sort of thing, who in the world does? 1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys xxvi How in the world did you persuade the captain? 1900 Overland Monthly Nov. 481/2 What in the world is this freak of a mountainer team that we're up against? 1923 G. K. Chesterton Fancies versus Fads ix. 82 Why in the world should they use the parallel evils as an argument for a veto? 1976 Washington Post 24 Oct. b7/1 The usual questions—Who is your favorite author? Who in the world would you most like to dine with?—seem out of place at the presidential level. 2005 A. Smith Accidental 76 Who in the world gave a damn..about ‘epiphany’. P5. With reference to birth, marriage, or death. a. to bring into the world and variants: to give birth to; (also) to deliver (a baby). Chiefly in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > confine or deliver [verb (transitive)] > give birth forthbring971 akenOE haveOE bearOE to bring into the worldOE teemOE i-bereOE to bring forthc1175 childc1175 reara1275 ofkenc1275 hatcha1350 makea1382 yielda1400 cleck1401 issue1447 engenderc1450 infant1483 deliver?a1518 whelp1581 world1596 yean1598 fall1600 to give (a person or thing) birth1615 to give birth to1633 drop1662 pup1699 born1703 to throw off1742 beteem1855 birth1855 parturiate1866 shell1890 to put to bed1973 bring- OE Genesis A (1931) 2286 Þu scealt, Agar, Abrahame sunu on woruld bringan. OE tr. Wonders of East (Vitell.) §11. 192 Þonne hy cennan willað, þonne farað hy on scipum to Indeum, & þær hyra gecynd on weorold bringað [L. prolem reddunt]. c1580 Howers Blessed Virg. 105 For then should I be..Now brought into the world, and streight againe outsent. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iii. 126 Thy Mothers wombe That brought thee to this world. View more context for this quotation 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 62 Those pretty Fawns, Prickets, Sorrells, Hemuses, and Girls..which I [sc. a Hinde] brought into the world. 1703 R. Calder Vindic. Serm. 10 I with great Reluctancy condescended to the desire of these Gentlemen to be the Mid-wife of bringing this once thought, abortive Child into the World. 1848 S. Bamford Early Days i I was brought into the world on the 28th February. 1888 Morning Post 12 Sept. Where men are brutalized, women are demonized, and children are brought into the world only to be inoculated with corruption. 1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley xxix. 324 I still cannot understand why you have insisted on the new-fangled idea of having my grandson..brought into the world in the delivery room of a hospital. 1999 T. Gilling Sooterkin (2000) 21 ‘Get a hold, missus,’ says William Dyer, not wanting to peer too closely at the thing his wife has brought into the world. 2000 Derby Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 6 July 8 If you were born at the Queen Mary Maternity Home..chances are you were brought into the world, nursed or nannied by one of these women. b. to come into (also to) the world and variants: (a) to be born (see come v. 6); (b) figurative and in extended use, esp. (of a book): to be published.to be sent into the world: see send v.1 1f. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > be born [verb (intransitive)] arisec950 to come forthOE to come into (also to) the worldOE riseOE breedc1200 kenec1275 birtha1325 to wax forth1362 deliver?c1450 kindlec1450 seed?a1475 issuec1515 arrive1615 born1698 to see the light1752 OE Genesis A (1931) 2365 Hwæðre ic Isace, eaforan þinum, geongum bearne, þam þe gen nis on woruld cumen, willa spedum dugeða gehwilcre on dagum wille swiðor stepan. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xviii. 37 To this thing I am born, and to this I cam in to the world [OE West Saxon Gospels: Corpus Cambr. to þam ic com on middaneard; L. veni in mundum], that I bere witnessing to treuthe. c1510 Gesta Romanorum (de Worde) A vij Euery man cometh poore and naked in to this worlde frome his moders bely. 1579 Randolph Let. in Buchanan Wks. (S.T.S.) 56 The last little Treatise..that lately come into the World. 1630 N. Richards Celestiall Publican sig. C5 Borne of a Virgin, came to the world a stranger His Palace an Oxe-stall, his Bed a Manger. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. 866 When our Saviour came into the World he unveiled the Jewish Religion, and decyphered all those mystical Characters wherein its spiritual Sense was expressed. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. viii 204 Thou wast but just come into the World, when, presently, Thou must Away, and take thy Flight into Egypt. a1791 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 100 My funny toil is no a' tint; Tho' ye come to the warld asklent. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) i. 3 He died..six months before I came into the world. 1914 ‘I. Hay’ Knight on Wheels xiii. §3 Having been born into the world with a club foot. 1969 R. Howard Untitled Subj. 13 Still deep snow, A foot thick in the courtyard, I dare say: severe Welcome to the new lambs coming into the world. 2007 New Yorker 6 Aug. 71/1 ‘The Robber’ itself, more an assemblage of passages than a novel in any ordinary sense, did not tumble into the world until 1972. ΚΠ 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 109v Ye say when a man wyl marry, then he goeth to the world. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 230/2 This man is of the worlde, that is to say, he is maried: This man is of the Churche, that is to say, Spirituall. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 299 Good Lord for aliance: thus goes euery one to the world but I. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iii. 5 I do desire it [sc. marriage] with all my heart: and I hope it is no dishonest desire, to desire to be a woman of ye world? View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 18 But if I may haue your Ladiships good will to goe to the world, Isbell the woman and [I] will doe as we may. View more context for this quotation d. to go (also depart , pass, †i-wite, †chare) out of this world and variants: to die. to wend out of this world: see wend v.1 9b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 OE tr. Alexander's Let. to Aristotle (1995) §40. 252 Ðin modor gewiteð of weorulde þurh scondlicne deað. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8602 He sæt stille. al-se þeh he wolde of worlden iwiten. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2390 Ic sal to min sune fare..or ic of werlde chare. a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 3953 Þaw y shulde now ouȝt of þis worde gone. a1500 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Trin. Dublin) l. 2653 Qwen he went of þis warld. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxviiiv The earle receiued such a wound in his head that he departed out of this world. c1588 Catholic Tractates (S.T.S.) 250 Not doutand bot angels and sanctis depairted out of this wardle may and do pray for us. 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. Ev The bringer of these heauy tydings..the very next day after his comming home, departed out of this world. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 114 Our hard entrance into the World, our miserable going out of it, our..sad Rencounters in it. 1701 New Descr. Holland iv. 20 Who at the time that he departed out of the World, was as much redoubted by his Enemies, as he was belov'd by the Soldiers, and the People. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 28 When we go out of this World, we may pass into..a new State of Life and Action. 1832 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 33 It seems as though all the old ones with one accord were departing out of the world together. 1937 J. F. Dobie in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas p. iii We go out of this world we don't know where, But if we've been good hombres here, We need not fear what will be there. 1953 P. Gallico Foolish Immortals xi. 56 She must put aside her gains and depart the world as poor and naked as when she entered it? 2002 Sunday Gaz.-Mail (Charleston, W. Va.) 3 Mar. 4 c/1 To better understand our passing out of this world and our entrance into the next, the scriptures plainly say we can study God's creation to find clues. P6. all the world. In Old English (and early Middle English) eall woruld. [Compare post-classical Latin mundus totus , totus mundus the whole world, everybody (Vulgate, compare quots. c1384 at Phrases 6a and c1384 at Phrases 6b(a), respectively), Anglo-Norman tut le mund and Middle French, French tout le monde the whole world (early 13th cent. or earlier), everything (late 13th cent. or earlier), everybody (a1411 or earlier); and also Dutch al die werelt the whole world, everybody (Dutch al de wereld), Middle Low German al de werlt the whole world, early modern German al die welt the whole world (1464; compare without the article Old High German elliu worolt everybody (German alle Welt everybody, (in some prepositional phrases) the whole world)).] a. The whole of the inhabited globe; the entire earth (or universe). Cf. Phrases 15a.(all) the world over: see over prep. 7d. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [noun] all the worldeOE mouldOE worldOE earthOE earthricheOE foldOE worldricheOE motherOE wonec1275 mound?a1300 wildernessa1340 mappemondea1393 lower worlda1398 the whole worlda1513 orba1550 the (also this) globe1553 the earthly globe1553 mother earth1568 the glimpses of the moon1603 universe1630 outer world1661 terrene1667 Orphic egg1684 Midgard1770 all outdoors1833 Planet Earth1858 overworld1911 Spaceship Earth1966 eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) xx. 171 Swa stent eall weoruld stille on tille, streamas ymbutan, lagufloda gelac, lyfte and tungla. lOE Homily: Gospel of Nicodemus (Vesp. D.xiv) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 86 Beelzebub fleah þa into helle botme, & ure Drihten him strangode æfter, & hine befran hwy he swa swyðe nyðer his setle gecure, & ærre cwæð þæt eall wurld wæs his. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 35 (MED) Swilche pine ic habbe þet me were leofere þenne al world þah hit were min most ic habben..summe lisse. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1290 It [sc. the hill] was so hey, þat y wel mouthe Al þe werd se, als me þouthe. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 7551 (MED) Þer nas prince in al þe world of so noble fame. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark viii. 36 What profiteth it a man, if he wynne al the world [L. mundum totum], and do peyringe to his soule? 1420 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 70 Aboue all erthely Princeps thorw all the word Cristene and Hethene. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 18 Þat was þe athill Alexsandire..Þat aȝte euyn as his awyn all þe werd ouire. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 4 Go zour way into all the warld, and preiche the Euangell. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 139 All the world's a stage, And all the men and women, meerely Players. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. ii. v. 48 Every where all the World over. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 698 Such London is, by taste and wealth proclaim'd The fairest capital of all the world. 1833 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve 24 In the early early morning..Before the red cock crows..When..all the world is still. 1853 Ld. Tennyson Sea-fairies (rev. ed.) in Poems (ed. 8) 44 Who can light on as happy a shore All the world o'er? 1958 C. Achebe Things fall Apart xxi. 160 We also believe in Him and call Him Chukwu. He made all the world and the other gods. 1999 C. Creedon Passion Play ix. 57 I mean of all the great tracks in all the world, some tasteless, tone-deaf, poulanus of a Dj, with a flick of a switch can just inflict Neil Diamond on the whole country. b. (a) Everybody in existence; (in narrower sense) everybody in the community, the public. Cf. Phrases 15b. against all the world: in opposition to or competition with everybody (cf. against the world at Phrases 19); (all) the world and his wife: see (all) the world and his wife at wife n. Phrases 4. ΘΚΠ the world > people > people collectively > [noun] > all people all the worldOE all ledea1275 more and minc1275 most and leasta1300 much and litec1330 mo and lessc1426 the whole world1530 cut and long tail1576 universal1596 general1604 universality1606 university1677 all outdoors1833 John Q.1937 OE Homily: Sunnandæges Spell (Tiber. A.iii) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 219 And an þam dege wurdan todælde ealra manna gehriorde; and ær wæs eal weoruld sprecende an an gehriorde, and nu is ealra gehriorde twa and hundseofentig. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xii. 19 Lo! al the world [L. mundus totus] wente aftir him. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 2386 Þou mayst nat excuse þe with rous And sey, ‘al þe worlde so dous’. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 2 Þat al þe word schal haue wyttyng. 1523 T. Cromwell Speech to Parl. in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 33 Theire insaciable apetite..ys so manyfest and notorys to all the word. 1588 in Border Papers (1894) I. 307 The Kinge..will mayntaine it [sc. religion] to the uttermoste of his power against all the worlde. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 353 Which I with more then with a common paine, Gainst all the world will rightfully maintaine. View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 157 I will faithfully serve her against all the World. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iii. iv. Rule 13 284 The Rogation fast (all the world knows) was instituted by Mammercus Bishop of Vienna. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man i. 1 All the world loves him. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond xii A man has no business to place them on paper for all the world to read. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade iii, in Maud & Other Poems 152 Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. 1879 J. McCarthy Donna Quixote I. 60 A woman can be handsome without all the world running after her. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 13/3 I was spotted on the train. I was spotted in the street car. Grand!..The fact is I was not only a jailbird, but all the world had begun to make me remember I was! 1955 A. L. Rowse Diary 12 July (2003) 243 The figure all the world knows now entered: stripy blue zip-suit, blue velvet slippers with W.S.C. worked in gold braid, outwards, for the world to read. 1998 A. Ashworth Once in House on Fire (1999) vii. 105 Our mother would let out an end-of-her-tether sigh at our shameless flaming antics, our screaming like banshees and acting proper common for all the world to witness. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] higheOE high life?a1518 towna1616 world1618 grand monde1673 society1693 beau monde1712 fine world1740 monde1765 tonc1770 high society1782 fashion1807 all the world1808 society1840 smart set1851 swelldom1854 Fifth Avenue1858 fashionabledom1859 haut monde1864 the big cheesea1910 higlif1911 haute Bohème1925 café society1937 jet set1949 beautiful people1950 1808 Sketches of Character I. iii. 47 Oh, all the world's here, the season was never so full. 1860 A. Trollope Castle Richmond II. xiii. 265 All the world—her world and his world—would think it better that they should part. 1877 Echo 31 July 1/4 The London Season when ‘everybody’ goes out of town—all the world, indeed. c. (a) for all the world: in regard to, or taking into consideration, everything in the world, all things considered; (hence) in every respect, exactly (like, etc.). Also occasionally †for all this world, †in all the world. Cf. Phrases 8a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > indicating reflection [phrase] for all the worlda1375 let me seec1405 let us (also let's) see1764 it makes you think1879 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1877 (MED) For al þe world I nold our werk were undone. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 15331 For alle þe world [a1450 Lamb. werd] so ferd he, o lyue wild he late non be. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Corpus Cambr. 61) (1894) iii. l. 1244 Ffor al this world in swych present gladnesse Was Troilus and hath his lady swete. c1430 (c1395) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) Prol. l. 150 Ffor al the world ryght as the dayseye I-corounede is with white leuys lite. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. vii. l. 40 Syk eyn had he, and syk fair handis tway, For all the warld syk mowth and face, perfay. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 93 For all the world, As thou art to this houre was Richard then. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 149 A paltry ring..whose posie was for all the world like Cutlers poetry vpon a knife. View more context for this quotation 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. xliv. 349 Thumbs and great toes they have moreover, with joints like (in all the world) to a man. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 339 Iust, for all the world, as the Pharises are taxed by our Sauiour. 1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 19 Their Water-gruel Jaws, sunk in a Thicket of Curls, appear, for all the World, like a Lark in a Soup-dish! 1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 43 As to her singing..she has a shrill crack'd pipe, that sounds for all the world like a child's trumpet. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. v. 103 She..dressed herself up in such a costume, as to look for all the world as if her sex were of a piece with her appearance. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona i. 3 This..city..was for all the world like a rabbit-warren. 1942 E. Ferber Saratoga Trunk (new ed.) vii. 154 Out stepped a majestic turbaned black woman looking for all the world like an exiled Nubian queen. 2007 C. Stross Halting State (2008) 80 She pauses and looks straight at the phonecam, for all the world as if she's reading from a teleprompter. (b) Everything in existence; (often with emotional force) all that is of value or account to a person, something supremely precious. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > most important > other main chance1584 all the world1600 masterworkc1606 state1656 foreground1817 axis1818 big one1924 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 224 You, in my respect, are all the world . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iv. 104 My life, my ioy, my food, my all the world . View more context for this quotation 1709 A. Pope Autumn in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 744 I may..Forsake mankind, and all the world—but love! 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. x. 220 You, my mother, and Margaret, must henceforth be all the world to me. View more context for this quotation 1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth I. iv. 120 Happiest of all, there was the consciousness of his love, who was all the world to her. 1899 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 21 35 The plaintive cry went to his heart and stirred every manly impulse. She was all the world to him. 1923 G. W. Bullett Street of Eye 121 ‘We were very young,’ she said, with disarming simplicity, ‘and we loved each other very much. He was all the world to me.’ 1998 S. Waters Tipping Velvet i. 4 Whitstable was all the world to me, Astley's Parlour my own particular country. P7. of the world. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > [adjective] lewdc890 worldlyOE of the world?c1225 secularc1290 layc1330 temporalc1340 borel1377 common?c1400 profane1474 laic1562 layit1563 laical1570 non-ecclesiastical1630 mundane1848 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective] worldlyOE dryc1175 fleshlyc1175 of the world?c1225 secularc1290 timely1340 of hencec1384 uttermore1395 worldisha1400 profane1474 humanc1475 mundanec1475 mundial1499 carnal?1510 seculary1520 unghostly1526 worldly-minded1528 sensual1529 earthly-minded1535 civil1536 subcelestial1561 worldly-witted1563 secular-minded1597 ghostlessa1603 lay1609 mundal1614 non-ecclesiastical1630 unspiritual1643 wilderness1651 worldly-handed1657 outward1674 timesome1674 apsychical1678 secularized1683 hylastic1684 choical1708 Sadducee1746 gay1798 unspiritualized1816 secularizing1825 unreligious1832 secularistic1862 apneumatic1864 Sadduceeic1875 this-worldly1883 this world1889 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 22 Wenne preostes of þe world singeð heore messen. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 244 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 113 (MED) Þis holi Man was i-torned fram þe office of holi churche To a gret office of þe world. 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Cviiiv The oder varkis qvhilk ar techit in al the buikis of the wardel. ΚΠ c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 238 Al studied þat þer stod, & stalked hym nerre, Wyth al þe wonder of þe worlde what he worch schulde. 1476 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) II. 7 Yff ye wold be a good etter off your mete..ye shuld make me the gladdest man off the world. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 92 Wherfore they began to crye and demene the gretteste sorow of the worlde. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 246 The most gentle and affable Prince of the world. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 72 No setled Sences of the World can match The pleasure of that madnesse. View more context for this quotation 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote iii. ix. 203 He began the most sadd and dolefull lamentation of the world. c. of (all) the world: out of the whole world, above all others in the world. Now rare and archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > especially or particularly [phrase] > especially or most of all of (all) othera1425 of (all) the world1481 of anya1500 above the rest1608 über alles1967 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxxxvi. 273 Thei [sc. the Turks] were the men of the world whom our men had grettest hate vnto. ?1572 T. Paynell tr. Treasurie Amadis of Fraunce iv. 92 Gandalin my friende, what thinkest thou of fortune, the which is to me so contrarie, that it depriueth me of that person of all the worlde, whose frequentation I loue moste. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 68 He, whom next thy selfe Of all the world I lou'd. View more context for this quotation 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 8 The man of the world, excepting yourself.., for whom I have the dearest respect. 1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 161 The book of all the world that charm'd me most Was, well-a-day, the title-page was lost! 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways III. xiv. 293 The man of all the world the most chivalrous!.. He is a man quite other from what you think him. 1954 J. Hale England & Ital. Renaissance iii. 79 It was he..who praised Florence as, after Rome, the city of all the world where the greatest number of fine works of art were to be seen. P8. Predominantly in negative contexts (equivalent to Phrases 8a), whereby an inducement or other alternative is rejected. a. In singular with definite article. not (to do something) for the world (also for all the world, † for half the world) (cf. for prep. 10a). Subsequently also in positive contexts, as to give the world (see give v. 9b), etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > negation > [adverb] > no > certainly not for nothinglOE not (to do something) for the worlda1375 for foul or fairc1405 not for a moment1785 not on your life1791 not for Joe (Joseph)1844 no siree1845 not much1871 a thousand times, no1896 not on your tintype1900 not for all the tea in China1937 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1877 (MED) For al þe world I nold our werk were undone. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 3952 Þat wold not I, for all þis werld heyre I yow hette. 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xv. f. lxiiv She wold not for all the worlde take her own pleasure without goddes wyll. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 99 Prin. He'le be forsworne. Nau. Not for the worlde faire Madame, by my will. View more context for this quotation 1605 P. Erondelle French Garden N 6 b I would not faile in it for any thing in the world. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. iii. 66 Wouldst thou doe such a deed, for all the world ? View more context for this quotation 1664 in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. (N.S.) 178 A thing I would not have been guilty of for halfe the world. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. i. sig. Aa3v He would not for all the World return again. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 43 I wou'dn't be as sick as she's proud, for all the World. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 807 He..Can dig, beg, rot,..but could not for a world Fish up his dirty and dependent bread, [etc.]. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. ii. 46 But I am sure I would not do such a thing for all the world . View more context for this quotation 1847 J. B. Buckstone Flowers of Forest iii. vii No, no—not for the wide wide world. 1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel I. iii. 62 Daphne, usually loquacious, felt as if she could not have spoken for the world. 1930 N. Coward Private Lives i. 29 I wouldn't have had it happen for the world. 2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane xi. 241 For them, Reg Kray's funeral provided a dose of good old-fashioned London street theatre, and it was a show that they would not have missed for the world. b. In plural. not for worlds: not for all the money in the world, not on any account. ΚΠ 1663 T. Porter Witty Combat i. ii. 6 Mod. In that opinion you deceive your self, me you cannot Sir. Pars. Not for Worlds on worlds! 1794 W. Godwin Things As They Are III. iii. 52 They all exclaimed, Betray him! No, not for worlds! 1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus xxiv Nor would he do one act for worlds, that could..cast a shade over the fame and honour of one ——. 1872 F. Locker London Lyrics (ed. 5) 178 I'd give worlds to borrow Her yellow rose with russet leaves. 1874 W. S. Gilbert Sweethearts ii. I'm sure I wouldn't stand in his way for worlds. 1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After ii. ii. 130 I wouldn't have you give it up now for worlds. 2005 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 9 Nov. 27 Looking back, I wouldn't have missed it for worlds! It helped me to appreciate and understand people better in post war life. P9. a. the world to come (also to be) and variants: the state of existence after this present world, the life after death; (also) the realm of departed spirits; = next world n. at next adj., adv., and n. Compounds 3. [Perhaps after post-classical Latin venturum saeculum (in the phrase expecto..vitam venturi saeculi , the final words of the Nicene Creed (compare quot. 1549), itself after ancient Greek προσδοκῶ..ζωὴν τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος).] ΚΠ c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 190 (MED) Impossible forsoþe it is, hem þat..haue tasted Godis word and uertues of þe world to come. 1479 Earl Rivers tr. Cordyal (Caxton) iv. iii Of this worlde to come speketh seint austyne in his book of the debate bitwix vertues & vices. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFiiii Affection and loue to this present worlde, herrour and dispection of the worlde to come. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxiii And I loke for..the lyfe of the worlde to come. 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise Epist. f. 2 The horribill tormentis preparit foryame in ye varld to cum. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxviii. 247 There are three worlds mentioned in Scripture, the Old World, the Present World, and the World to come. 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 2 The World's a Prophecy of Worlds to come. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost i. 10 He predestinated them, first to grace in this world, and..to glory in the world to come. 1910 J. Hastings Encycl. Relig. III. 822/2 The punishment of the wicked, in the world to come, will not be of endless duration, since their life must finally be extinguished. 2004 P. de Rosa Fatal Flaw Christianity ii. 102 The..subterfuge..that..awaiting us, if only we repent and renounce this world, is glory unimaginable in the world to come. ΚΠ 1549 Ridley in R. Potts Liber Cantabr. (1855) 245 (note) A dangerouse example to the worlde to cum. 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 28 For that in the worldes to come, it might bee knowen who was the author therof. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. ii. 169 True swains in loue shall in the world to come Approue their trueth by Troylus. View more context for this quotation a. in (also till) worlds long: for ages. Obsolete. ΚΠ tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. l. 162 (MED) Who wol do puruyaunce in worldis longe [L. seculorum], The palmes forto sette he must ha mynde. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. l. 482 Tyl worldis [L. aetate] longe This drynkis wole abide and ay be stronge. b. by long worlds: ages ago. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 113 Þe olde philosophers vsyd it by longe werldes [L. per longitudinem dierum]. P11. the world, the flesh, and the Devil: the temptations of earthly life. [Compare Anglo-Norman la temptacion de ma char, de mounde et de diable (1354).] ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10103 Thrin fas..þis werld, my fleche, þe warlau als. c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 5 Þe deuel, the world, and the flayssh.] a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 1006 Þe Werld, þe Flesch, and þe Devyl are knowe Grete lordys. 1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bv From fornication, & al deadly synne, and from all the deceites of the worlde, the flesshe, and the deuill, Good lorde deliuer vs. 1614 J. Day Dyall x. 263 First that this kingdome of Grace be not hindred by many spars and lets that it hath what with the World, the Flesh, & the Divell. 1708 S. Hill Thorough Exam. False Princ. 154 The Priviledge of Baptism is not to be granted him without Renuntiation of the World, the Flesh, and the Devil. 1787 A. Davies Diary 1 Jan. (1788) 249 Bless us as a family;..save from the wickedness of the world, the flesh, and the devil! 1882 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VI. Ps. cxix. 9 The world, the flesh, and the devil, that trinity of defilers. 1929 J. D. Bernal (title) The world, the flesh, & the Devil. 2000 H. S. Pyper in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 761/2 Often.., ‘the world’ has been used as shorthand for everything that Christians should reject, summed up in the slogan ‘the world, the flesh, and the devil’. P12. a. as the (also this) world goes: as things are, considering the state of affairs. Now rare and archaic. ΚΠ c1460 in R. Brotanek Mittelengl. Dichtungen MS 432 Trin. Coll. Dublin (1940) 128 Trust not..youre foos, ffor þei be double in wirking, as þe worlde gos. 1478 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 178 William Paston..paid to the parson..xxiiij li. It is yerly worth, as the world goth now—x li. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 180 To be honest as this world goes, Is to be one man pickt out of tenne thousand. View more context for this quotation 1713 A. Pope Corr. Dec. (1956) I. 198 And give me leave to tell you, that (as the world goes) this is no small assurance I repose in you. 1820 P. Sebright Coincidence II. iii. 117 Nor, as the world goes, is it to be wondered at, that there are more who are willing to talk than to hear. 1930 H. Paterson tr. W. von Molo in O. F. de Battaglia Dictatorship on its Trial i. 140 A permanent dictatorship, as this world goes, is an impossibility. 2007 C. Thomas Life & Wks. F. Schiller xix. 303 This is no very appalling crime as the world goes, and especially as the world went in the Middle Ages. b. how the world goes: how events shape themselves; how goes the world with (a person): how are his (or her) affairs. Now archaic. ΚΠ 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 70 They knowe not how the world gooth [Du. hoet gaet dye werelt]. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iv. iv. sig. Tiij What is the matter, or howe gothe the worlde with hym? 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 18 Now let vs go..and see how the worlde goeth with maister Antonius. a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 83 However the world goes, we may yet make a tolerable shift. 1765 S. Foote Commissary i. i. 16 But first, how goes the world with you, Simon? 1886 L. Morris Gycia iii. iii. 107 Good my lord, How goes the world with thee? 1984 C. H. Sisson Coll. Poems 309 A commonplace is good for nothing now, Yet that is how the world goes, all the same. P13. shame of the world n. now rare (chiefly with the) = world's shame at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1486 J. Mirk's Liber Festiuall (Rood & Hunte) sig. bvi/2 There is moche peple and hit wher not for shame of the worlde in lenton nor oute lenton wold neuer come to shryfte. 1533 T. More Apologye f. 213 After that he was suspected of heresye and spoken to therof, ferynge the shame of the worlde drowned hym self in a well. 1611 G. Chapman May-day iv. Has not one of them [sc. disguises] kept you safe from the shame of the world? 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 32 Fie, fie, Miss! for Shame of the World, and Speech of good People. 1815 Morning Chron. 10 Apr. 3/4 The shame of the world will be threefold increased. 1908 H. James Compl. Plays (1949) 657 The Scandal of History; the Dead Waste of Power; the Sin and Shame of the World. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > wonder, be astonished [phrase] > it is wonderful it is a worldc1495 it is a world and (also a) wonder1600 mirabile dictua1634 it is to be wondered1654 strange to say, tell1697 strange enough1853 c1495 15th Cent. School Bk. (Arun. 249) (1956) 3 It is a worlde to se the delectacioun..that a mann shall have which riseth erly in thies summer mornynges. a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 2205 (MED) Euerychone on other ferly they sette..and trewly for to speke It was a world to here the sperys breke. ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Cvv It is a worlde to se her whyrle Daunsynge in a rounde. ?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 78 Ys it not a world to consider the desier of wylfull prynces whan they fully be bent..to fullfyll ther voluptious Appetytes. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iii. xxvi. 105 A world and wonder it is to hear them speak. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 307 'Tis a world to see How tame when men and women are alone, A meacocke wretch can make the curstest shrew. View more context for this quotation 1620 L. Andrewes 96 Serm.: Holy Ghost (1629) xiii. 738 But it were a world to rake up old errors. 1637 J. Pocklington Altare Christianum 52 It is a world to see, what pert Gynny Birds their Gossips are. 1666 W. Dugdale Origines Juridiciales 152/1 The Prince so served will tender meats,..as it seemed wonder a world to observe the provision. 1766 W. Kenrick Falstaff's Wedding i. v. 6 Well, as I am an honest woman, who would have thought it? it is a world to see! 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) It's a woo'ld to see that theer little un order the big uns to the roight abaout! P15. the whole world. a. = Phrases 6a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [noun] all the worldeOE mouldOE worldOE earthOE earthricheOE foldOE worldricheOE motherOE wonec1275 mound?a1300 wildernessa1340 mappemondea1393 lower worlda1398 the whole worlda1513 orba1550 the (also this) globe1553 the earthly globe1553 mother earth1568 the glimpses of the moon1603 universe1630 outer world1661 terrene1667 Orphic egg1684 Midgard1770 all outdoors1833 Planet Earth1858 overworld1911 Spaceship Earth1966 a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 89 He has..maid a man king of angellis, lord of the haill waurld and alkynd of creaturis. 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man To Rdr. f. viiv The ypocrites with worldly preachinge have not goten the prayse only, but even the possessions also and the dominion and rule of the whole worlde. 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Luke ix. 25 What avauntageth it a man, to wynne the whole worlde, yf he loose him sylfe? ?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 238 As any is ith whole woaude. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 4 The vther parte..sa is situat, as frome the hail warlde it war diuidet. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. i. 7 Man..had left him notwithstanding for his lot the whole world besides. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. x. 48 It being just so long since he left his parish,—and the whole world at the same time behind him. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. viii Ethel [was] full of glee and wonder, for once beyond Whitford, the whole world was new to her. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1385 The extermination of a walrus or a musk-ox, a quagga or a sea-otter, is more than a national or continental loss, it is an impoverishment of the whole world. 2007 H. Kunzru My Revol. 162 Up there the crew-cut astronauts could see the whole world as a blue-green disc. b. = Phrases 6b. ΘΚΠ the world > people > people collectively > [noun] > all people all the worldOE all ledea1275 more and minc1275 most and leasta1300 much and litec1330 mo and lessc1426 the whole world1530 cut and long tail1576 universal1596 general1604 universality1606 university1677 all outdoors1833 John Q.1937 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. Prol. Vntyil the full age were come that God wold shewe him [sc. Christ] openlye vnto the whole worlde and delyuer them from their shadowes and cloudelight. ?1553 H. Dekyn tr. Herman V of Wied Brefe Declar. Dewty Maried Folkes sig. Ci v The amendemente of all the whole worlde. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxij I had the whole worlde against me with all their force and myght. 1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. A.3 Ze haue oblist zour selffis befoir ye haill warld, to continew in the same vertew of Iustice. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 169 One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. View more context for this quotation 1776 S. Foote Bankrupt ii. 29 The whole world concur in giving him sense. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlvi. 114 Subjection, not only to her present oppressive employer, but to a whole world who seemed to despise her. 1935 ‘E. Queen’ Spanish Cape Myst. iv. 104 ‘Yeah, I know,’ said Moley disconsolately. ‘The whole world could have bumped him off, including myself. Nuts and bolts!’ 2006 V. Vinge Rainbow's End xxiv. 255 The whole world was here tonight. P16. With reference to social status or worldly fortune. a. to be low in the world. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] to have needOE needa1300 to have mistera1400 to be low in the world1521 lack1523 pinch1549 to be beforehand (also behindhand) in (or with) the world1615 to feel the pinch1861 to feel the draught1925 1521 tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Cyte of Ladyes ii. lxv. sig. Q.iiiv Howe many nedy gentylmen & others haue ben and ben all dayes lowe in the worlde comforted & socoured by women & by theyr goodes. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Rehabilitation, an Act whereby the Pope or the King, by Dispensation, or Letters Patents, restores those that are grown low in the World. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 672 Low in the world, because he scorns its arts. View more context for this quotation 1839 Era 19 May 401/1 One of the prisoners, named Waddington, was reduced so low in the world as to render it out of the question that he could hope to find bail. 1985 ‘T. J. J. Altizer’ Hist. as Apocalypse iv. 77 But Paul in his opening chapter to these spiritual Christians insists that God chose what is foolish, weak, and low in the world. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] to have needOE needa1300 to have mistera1400 to be low in the world1521 lack1523 pinch1549 to be beforehand (also behindhand) in (or with) the world1615 to feel the pinch1861 to feel the draught1925 the mind > possession > wealth > be rich [verb (intransitive)] > be well off to be beforehand (also behindhand) in (or with) the world1615 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. iv. sig. Niii Cord. Do you obserue the plunges that this poore Gallant is put too (Signior) to purchase the Fashion. Mit. I, and to be still a Fashion behind with the world, that's the sport. View more context for this quotation] 1615 R. Rogers Comm. Bk. Judges lxviii. 578 Their parents are many waies grieued by them in other respects; as to see them crossed and brought behinde hand in the world. 1650 J. Howell Additional Lett. v. 9 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) Hee is the happy man who can square his mind to his means,..He who is before hand with the world. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. ii. 173 All that are in Rome do strive to be aforehand with the world. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Iiii3/2 To be before hand in the World, être à son aise... To be behind hand in the World, faire mal ses Affaires. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ii. 73 Having run something behind-hand with the World. 1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain (1789) I. 10 My landlord, Monsieur Dessein, who was behind-hand with the world ten years ago, is now become one of the richest men in Calais. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. vi. 66 I shall see how much I am before-hand with the world in the spring. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xi. 121 ‘And then,’ said Mr. Micawber,..‘I shall, please Heaven, begin to be beforehand with the world,..if—in short, if anything turns up.’ c. to get on (also †up) in the world. Also in similar phrases. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > rise in prosperity, power, or rank wax971 climba1240 forthgoa1325 arise1340 risec1390 increasea1425 to come upa1475 raise1490 clamber1576 to make one's way1579 grow1622 to get on (also up) in the world1791 1791 J. Woodforde Diary 20 Mar. (1927) III. 257 John Greaves, my Carpenter..married about 2 Years or more ago, to a Servant Maid of Mrs. Lombe's..and lived very happy together and daily getting up in the World. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. vii. ⁋6 Do they get on in the world? 1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxviii. 196 His family is getting up in the world. 1883 D. C. Murray Hearts (1885) xiv. 112 I am getting on a little in the world, and am in the way to earn a little money. 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married Pref. in Doctor's Dilemma 124 It used to be said that members of large families get on in the world. 1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe ii. 87 She deaved John Muir from morning till night to get out of his job, a common bit roadman, and get on in the world. 1996 I. Donnachie et al. Studying Sc. Hist., Lit. & Culture 120 But all develop the same stereotypes of the self-sacrificing mother, the stern-but-just father, the ‘lad o' pairts’ (the son who gets on in the world),..and, at the centre of the novel, the community itself. d. to come (also go) down in the world. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition afalleOE wanec1000 fallOE ebba1420 to go backward?a1425 to go down?1440 decay1483 sink?a1513 delapsea1530 reel1529 decline1530 to go backwards1562 rue1576 droop1577 ruina1600 set1607 lapse1641 to lose ground1647 to go to pigs and whistles1794 to come (also go) down in the world1819 to peg out1852 to lose hold, one's balance1877 to go under1879 toboggan1887 slip1930 to turn down1936 the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > become poor poor?a1300 to come downa1382 decay1483 to bring haddock to paddock1546 to come to want1590 ruina1600 to come (also go) down in the world1819 1819 Families of Owen & De Montfort I. v. 75 It's a sign her father's come down in the world, seeing his daughter crouches so low to one who was once her equal. 1837 J. S. Mill Let. 6 Aug. in Wks. (1963) XII. 346 To alter their style of living and go (as the vulgar phrase is) down in the world. 1852 Preston Guardian 2 Oct. 3/5 When a tradesman came down in the world he might perhaps rise again. 1889 C. E. L. Riddell Princess Sunshine I. i. 8 They had come down in the world. 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands v. 51 Miss Pilcher, who had been in ‘the profession’ as a Fat Girl, had come down in the world. 1959 O. Sitwell Place of one's Own 56 She still occupied her father's substantial house in Penge, but she had come down in the world. 2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names iv. 58 Strong-boned and with a cut-glass voice, Mother held herself with an hauteur that suggested she had come down in the world through no fault of her own. P17. to let the world slide: to allow things to take their course, to leave matters alone. ΚΠ 1560 J. Knox Answer Great Nomber Blasphemous Cauillations 190 Let vs set the cock on hoope and let the world slyde. 1609 T. Dekker Ravens Almanacke sig. B2v Amongst Gentlemen that haue full pursses, and those that crie trilill, let the world slide. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Chargé To take no thought, passe the time merrily, let the world slide. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. i. 5 Therefore..let the world slide . View more context for this quotation 1796 G. Colman Iron Chest (ed. 2) Pref. p.ii I cannot, however, cry ‘Let the world slide:’ I must persue my journey. 1873 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 380 I sit, pottle-pot in hand, i' the chimney-nook—let the world slide while I taste it. 1900 J. L. Robertson Horace in Homespun 100 An' weel contentit there they ride, An' lauch, an' let the warld slide. 2003 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 2 Nov. Go to work, come home, put your feet up and let the world slide. P18. Expressing seclusion and detachment. a. to be in another world: to be so absorbed in one's thoughts, an activity, etc., as to be insensible or inattentive to one's surroundings; to be transported, enraptured, or lost in thought.In some instances perhaps influenced by another world at sense 1b. ΚΠ 1542 T. Becon Dauids Harpe ii. sig. dviiv As whan a man is so rapte into another kynd or state that he forgetteth himselfe, or semeth to be in another world, as they vse to saye. 1759 J. Wesley Jrnl. 6 Aug. (1764) 72 From that Moment, they were in another World, knowing nothing of what was done or said, by all that were round about them. 1876 Good Words 17 579 He had been sent or taken to this hall and that society to hear—the music of the spheres to Clem—he was in another world, and was exalted and engrossed. 1925 Eng. Jrnl. 14 807 I was carried quite out of myself... I quite forgot it was a play: I was in another world. 2004 Commentary Dec. 55/2 Your father, before he died, half the time he was in another world. You couldn't talk sensibly to him for five minutes in his last years. b. to be in a world of one's own and variants: to be in a secluded environment of which one is the only inhabitant; to be absorbed in oneself and inattentive to one's surroundings or situation; to be divorced from reality. ΚΠ 1658 C. B. & W. G. S. Crook's Τα Διαϕεροντα or Divine Characters i. xi. 119 He that dreameth, who from the common world with-draweth into a world of his own. a1668 W. Waller Divine Medit. (1680) iv. 22 Here, within the inclosure of these Walls, thou art in a particular world of thine own. 1705 R. Steele Tender Husband i. i. 7 You must understand, the young Lady by being kept from the World, has made a World of her own—She has spent all her solitude in Reading Romances. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. ii. vii. 71 He threw himself at length upon the turf; and was soon got into a world of his own, snoring most profoundly. 1805 W. Godwin Fleetwood II. xiii. 180 He lived however, toward the close of his life, in a world of his own, and saw nothing as it really was. 1851 N. Hawthorne Seven Gables v. 86 These..people were odd humorists, in a world of their own,—a world of vivid brilliancy. 1931 E. Bliss Saraband i. 11 She's always dreaming. I think she lives in a world of her own. 1992 T. Davies Modest Pageant 177 God help him. He's in a world of his own. P19. against the world: in opposition to or in the face of all humankind; (hence) against all opposition, †in preference to everything else (obsolete). Cf. against all the world at Phrases 6b(a).See also Phrases 6b. [After post-classical Latin adversus mundum (1525 in the passage translated in quot. 1537).] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > to everyone or everything against the world1537 contra mundum1766 the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choice [phrase] > by preference > in preference to everything else against the world1690 1537 T. Paynell tr. Erasmus Comparation Vyrgin & Martyr f. 21 It is also a sure thynge, trusting faythfully in hym, to rise and rebelle agaynst the worlde [L. aduersus mundum], whiche braggyngly shewethe forthe his delectable pleasures. 1606 Returne from Pernassus i. ii What Monsier Kynsader, lifting vp your legge and pissing against the world. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 120 But yesterday, the word of Cæsar might Haue stood against the World . View more context for this quotation 1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 531 I am for the woods against the World, i.e. before any thing. 1722 H. Carey Hanging & Marriage vi. 28 Why 'tis the Dead-man's Wedding; we mun be merry now against the World! 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 7 Feb. (1939) 92 As a lion-catcher, I could pit her against the world. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 231 There will I..hold thee with my life against the world. 1919 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 17 Mar. 3/4 Ireland for seven centuries has stood up against the world, against the pride of the world, the riches of the world. 2007 GQ (U.K. ed.) Apr. 158/3 You've got to have some talent but you've really got to believe in yourself. You get in the trenches and it's you against the world. P20. to see the world: to travel widely; to gain broad experience. ΚΠ 1557 H. Iden tr. G. B. Gelli Circes vi. sig. K.v Hathe fortune dryuen the hyther, as she dydde me? Not fortune, but desyre to see the worlde. 1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. A4v Some also were of a nice bringing vp, only in cities or townes, or such as neuer (as I may say) had seene the world before. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 35 in Trav. Persia One who had never seen the world. 1790 R. Tyler Contrast i. i. 4 To see the world and rub off a little of the patroon rust. 1809 A. Wilson in Port Folio 1 540 Fresh on his maiden cruise to see the world. 1890 M. Oliphant Kirsteen I. viii. 130 Right or wrong it was always a good thing that her nurslings should see the world. 1955 G. Greene Quiet Amer. (1962) 58 You've seen so much more of the world than I have. 2007 Park Home & Holiday Caravan Jan. 105/1 Neither was keen on staying put and working in the UK. Instead, they wanted to travel and see the world. P21. to begin the world: to begin to take an active part in the affairs of life; to start out on one's career. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > career > have career [verb (intransitive)] > take up profession or start career to begin the world1570 to set up1593 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > become active or come into operation > in the affairs of life to begin the world1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2237/2 A stocke of money to begin the world withall. a1600 T. Deloney Thomas of Reading (1612) xiv. sig. K Thereupon one gaue him ten pounds, another twenty, another thirtie pounds, to begin the world anew. 1704 M. Henry Church in House 55 You are beginning the World (as you call it). 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. ii. 17 Who might, from such an outsetting, begin the world..with some hope of success. 1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) iv. 53 Do you know..with how much land Mr. Malton began the world? 1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xxxii. 307 Two thousand pounds; that's a large sum to hand over... Upon my word,..you will have to begin the world again. 1903 H. Alger Paul the Peddler x. 68 At the end of that time I was to receive a hundred dollars and a freedom suit to begin the world with. P22. a world of time: a vast extent of time; an age, an eternity. Similarly a world of years (also †worlds of years). [Compare Middle French, French un monde d'ans (1562 in the passage translated in quot. 1601).] ΚΠ 1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. D3v What a worlde of tyme, Is it for me to lie as in a sounde, Without my life. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiv. i. 404 Yet continued it hath a world of yeares [Fr. vn monde d'ans, L. tot aevis] uncorrupt. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 2 Forgetfull of all other things in their antient countrey, after so many worlds of yeeres. 1620 F. Quarles Pentelogia N4 Seruing a world of yeeres. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 315 I took up a World of time in Considering of this Matter. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 407 It'll take a world of time to do it. 1994 L. Owens Bone Game (1996) x. 57 She has plunged him back to that moment of decision a world of years before when it was she whom he cast off before he could even know. 2004 N. Ayo Times of Grace 13 Though it may take a world of time to become a new heaven and new earth,..yet we believe such an evening glory has been promised in the end. world of words n. Obsolete a dictionary (also in the titles of dictionaries). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary dictionaryc1480 calepin1568 world of words1598 lexicon1603 Richard Snary1627 dict.1656 thesaurus1840 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes (title page) A Worlde of Wordes, Or Most copious, and exact Dictionarie in Italian and English. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vocabulaire, a Vocabularie, Dictionarie, world of words. 1646 W. Twisse Treat. Predestination 132 But you bring no Greeke Grammarian or Dictionarie to justifie either the one or the other; neither doe I thinke any world of words (as Dictionaries are sometimes called) doth justifie any such interpretation. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) (title page) The Moderne World of Words, or A Vniversall English Dictionary,..Novus Orbis Verborum. P24. to set the world on fire (also alight, aflame, etc.): to attract excitement or admiration; to cause a sensation, do something remarkable (cf. to set the Thames on fire at fire n. and int. Phrases 2k). Also: to cause turmoil or unrest. ΚΠ 1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. iv. 181 Fair Nymph, whose beauties all admire, Whose face does set the World on fire. 1725 Paradox 42 His Doctrine..would however, when publish'd, set the World on fire, Father against Father, and Son against Son. 1832 Atkinson's Casket Dec. 567/2 Give him a welcome in that Uncle's name, Whose proud example sets the world aflame,..our Uncle Sam! 1883 Daily Miner (Butte, Montana) 31 Aug. These over-cautious, know-it-all, beg-leave-to-differ people are not the kind who set even a small part of the world on fire. 1918 Art World Jan. 300/1 If I could, I should write a poem that would set the world ablaze. 1923 Jrnl. Brit. Inst. Internat. Affairs 2 29 Blind to danger and deaf to advice as were the statesmen of the three despotic Empires, not one of them..desired to set the world alight. 1959 M. Spark Memento Mori i. 2 A lady who once set the whole of the literary world..on fire. 2009 Irish Independent (Nexis) 17 Oct. Just because they put a new, refined blah-blah diesel engine in, it doesn't mean it is going to set the world alight. P25. the world around one: the world, as it relates to oneself; one's environment or surroundings. ΚΠ 1698 E. Settle Def. Dramatick Poetry 26 He owed that Justice both to the World around him, and Posterity after him, to read a little longer Esculapian Lecture upon so Epidemick a Disease. 1709 Tatler No. 37. 268 With an estate that might make him the blessing and ornament of the world around him. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. ii. 149 She walked about in a sad reverie, apparently unconscious of the world around her. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 2/1 Six months in the fields with a platyscopic lens would teach them strange things about the world around them. 1955 Sci. News Let. 19 Mar. 185/2 Patients with this disease are at times completely withdrawn from the world around them and give the picture of the very extreme of introversion. 2004 Slightly Foxed Summer 33 Curiosity and wonder depend..on being happily surprised again and again as the intricacies of the world around us are revealed. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > the same [phrase] > exactly like all to the world1749 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. viii. 202 There the Bastard was bred up,..all to the World like any Gentleman. View more context for this quotation P27. to have the world at one's feet: to have countless opportunities available; to be free to do as one pleases. ΚΠ 1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. viii. viii. 307 Young, rich, and attractive, the world at your feet. 1863 H. Kingsley Austin Elliot viii. 60 Without her money he will be an office-hunter. He may have the world at his feet with my daughter's money. 1890 A. Conan Doyle Sign of Four ix. 164 Just imagine what it must be to be so rich, and to have the world at your feet. 1927 Passing Show Summer 22/1 Ah! then..he had the world at his feet. 1988 O. Clark Diary 6 Sept. (1998) 263 Why should a boy of 18, with his head screwed on properly, with the world at his feet,..bother to see his father? 2003 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 30 Aug. 46 The Magpies defender insists the Irish teenager has the world at his feet, after seeing him make his full debut against Peterborough on Monday. P28. to make the world go round: (literal) to cause the earth to (continue to) turn; (chiefly figurative) to provide the necessary ingredient for the smooth running of society, etc. See also money makes the world go around at money n. Phrases 3c. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 114 Cup vs till the world go round. View more context for this quotation] 1788 J. Hurdis Village Curate 21 Tis drink, And only drink, that makes the world go round. 1826 Universal Songster III. 369/1 Oh! 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love, That makes the world go round. 1865 ‘L. Carroll’ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ix. 132 ‘“Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!”’ ‘Somebody said,’ Alice whispered, ‘that it's done by everybody minding their own business.’ c1882 W. S. Gilbert Iolanthe ii. 33 It's Love that makes the world go round! 1894 Punch 30 June 305 It is not poesy, culture, wisdom, wit, That make the literary world go round. 1929 E. Hope Alice in Delighted States xxvi. 287 Money..makes the world go 'round. 1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) iv. 33 A little grease is what makes this world go round... Know what I mean? 2001 Oldie Dec. 25/1 Relationships are what makes the world go round, but in the end she finds that sex is sex is sex. P29. a. the best of both worlds: the benefits available from two seemingly incompatible or alternative options. Also occasionally the best of all worlds.In early use with reference to the earthly and heavenly worlds. ΚΠ 1822 J. Squire Gleanings in Fields Boaz II. 497 Men surely cannot expect to have the best of both worlds. 1860 E. House Homilist lxii. 368 The religious man does make ‘the best of both worlds’, but it is not by serving God and mammon. 1922 L. Weaver Small Country Houses of To-day (ed. 3) xxv. 127 By the combination of open fires with central heating, one gets the best of both worlds. 1960 Daily Tel. 20 Aug. 7/1 A waterfront hotel where you can..have the best of both worlds by spending your holiday sailing yet being able to live ashore in warm, dry comfort. 1969 Nondestructive Evaluation (National Materials Advisory Board) p. v The ultimate users, desiring the best of all worlds, have compounded the problems. 2002 M. Holroyd Wks. on Paper 37 The biographer wants the best of both worlds—the artistic freedom to invent and the reliance on authenticated fact. b. the worst of both worlds: the least desirable results available from two seemingly incompatible or alternative options. Also occasionally the worst of all worlds.In quot. 1856 with reference to the earthly and heavenly worlds. ΚΠ 1856 Ragged School Union Mag. June 101 Surely it is a hard thing they [sc. the poor] should have the worst of both worlds... Must they suffer the misery of Lazarus in this world, and yet endure the torments of Dives in the world to come? 1920 Observer 17 Oct. 12/3 The two-fold effect of the strike must inevitably be to increase unemployment while maintaining high prices, and thus to give the country the worst of both worlds. 1981 R. W. Mansbach & J. A. Vasquez In Search of Theory ix. 375 The result was the worst of all worlds. 1984 V. Stolcke in R. T. Smith Kinship Ideol. & Pract. Lat. Amer. 289 A woman gets the worst of both worlds: the husband is as likely to beat her up when he fears her reprimands for his infidelity as when she is suspected of being unfaithful. 2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 July (Business section) 11 They were told to put their money into highly nondiversified portfolios that were also expensive. That's the worst of both worlds: high risk and low returns. P30. to think the world of: to have the highest possible opinion of or regard for. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [verb (transitive)] haveeOE weenc1000 praisec1250 setc1374 set by1393 endaunt1399 prizec1400 reverencec1400 tender1439 repute1445 to have (also make, take) regard to or that1457 to take, make, set (no) count of (upon, by)c1475 pricec1480 to make (great, etc.) account (also count, esteem, estimation, reckoning, regard, store) of1483 force1509 to look upon ——c1515 to have (also hold) in estimationc1522 to make reckoning of1525 esteem1530 regard1533 to tell, make, hold, set (great, little, no) store of1540 value1549 to make dainty of (anything)1555 reckon1576 to be struck on1602 agrade1611 respect1613 beteem1627 appreciate1648 to put, set (an) esteem, a high, low esteem upon1665 to think small beer of1816 to think the world of1826 existimate1847 reckon1919 rate1973 1826 Torch Light & Public Advertiser (Hagers-Town, Maryland) 3 Jan. I thought the world of him—and he took the first fair opportunity of cheating me most. 1844 Settler & Pennon (Smethport, Pa.) 7 Dec. 1/3 Mr. Hoyden thinks the world of her. 1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age viii. 82 He thinks the world of me, Fugier does. 1905 F. Young Sands of Pleasure ii. i She was kept by a Russian Prince, who thought the world of her. 1956 M. Dickens Angel in Corner ix. 167 I know you don't think much of him, although you've hung around him for ages, but I think the world of him. 1970 N. Bawden Birds on Trees viii. 140 He thinks the world of Toby, you know that, but he can't keep things up at your pitch when he's tired after a long day's work. 2003 B. Wagner Still Holding i. 36 She knew only the vulnerable, courtly, rollicksome bear, and thought the world of him. P31. to speak (also tell) worlds: = to speak volumes at volume n. 3b. ΚΠ 1828 Baroness Bunsen Let. 6 Feb. in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) I. viii. 301 The very fact of writing..tells worlds as to the feelings of tenderness towards you that occupied him. 1879 Times 13 Jan. 10/1 Not a hostile shot had been fired at the little column the whole way going and returning, which speaks worlds for the compactness with which the troops marched. 1934 Amer. Speech 9 210/2 To him who can interpret, it tells worlds. 1969 J. Fowles French Lieutenant's Woman (1977) xiv. 93 It was very brief, but it spoke worlds; two strangers had recognized they shared a common enemy. 2001 M. Yalom Hist. of Wife ii. 64 The salutation of her first letter speaks worlds about the difference in their stations. P32. In adverbial uses premodifying adverbs. a. a world apart: utterly different; frequently with from. ΚΠ 1832 Q. Rev. Dec. 421 The language is simple—a world apart from the stilted exaggerations in vogue. 1867 H. W. Preston tr. Life & Lett. Mme. Swetchine 213 Though they show equal ability, what an infinite distance there is between the two pictures! They are a world apart. 1962 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 34 345/1 Despite Guizot's early influence on him, Tocqueville was a world apart from the ‘enrichessez-vous’. 1996 Sky Mag. Oct. 32/3 Her naturalism and Scully's stiff professionalism are a world apart. 2006 fRoots Mar. 42/1 It's a world apart from the rather harsh conditions of the wilayas or refugee camps. b. a world away (from): vastly different or distant (from); = worlds away (from) at Phrases 32c. ΚΠ 1841 New Monthly Mag. 61 34 The cravings of the passion are directed into some channel, a world away from the attainments, position, havings, and expectancies of the individual. 1922 Classical Rev. 36 193 An address by Dr. Mackail..dazzles us with a view of an ode of Horace..(and what a world away from the traditional commentaries). 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 31 Jan. 1/3 A world away, at Philadelphia, Congress was trying almost single-mindedly to settle its grievances with England peacefully. 1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 23 July c1/2 In the 1988 Summer Olympics, the boats raced on the waters of the mighty Han River in Korea, a world away. 2006 Prospect Aug. 10/1 Most anti-Jewish feeling is a world away from ‘traditional’ antisemitism. c. worlds apart: vastly different or distant; quite incompatible. Similarly worlds away (from). ΚΠ 1800 C. Hutton Diary Compan. 4 How did we revel in our distant bow'rs, In fancied interviews, whole worlds apart!] 1891 Glasgow Herald 19 Sept. 7/2 It is always the case, in every game where skill can be employed, that the most skilful make their mark, and are worlds apart from the comparatively unskilful. 1900 H. S. Holland Old & New 33 They look to you worlds apart. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy (1959) 61 It is worlds away from the ‘fellowship in service’ of some of the socially purposive movements. 1970 W. Stracke in S. Terkel Hard Times (2000) 166 In 1940, I was fired by the Fourth Presbyterian Church. I had become active, singing for various causes. I hadn't gotten too much static from this because they were worlds apart. 2002 B. Risebero Story Western Archit. (ed. 3) 281 These middle-class kids, trying to form a commune, were worlds apart from the building-workers in the French bidonvilles or the thousands of homeless in the barriadas of Peru. d. half a world away: far away; (literal) on the other side of the planet. Also with from. ΚΠ 1841 T. C. Morgan Bk. without Name I. 79 The guest freezes in the north-east corner of the dining-hall,..half a world away from the glowing hearth. 1908 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 13 837 Here is a group of colored folks half a world away, yet the United States is not content until it goes, annexes them, and rules them. 1954 Times 2 Aug. 7 The camps of the ‘gold rush’ never grew into a powerful city, as they did at Johannesburg, half a world away. 1991 H. Rheingold Virtual Reality iv. xvi. 361 The other tanks that are visible during a SIMNET session are controlled by other tank crews that can be twelve feet or half a world away, in real time. 2004 Adirondack Life Feb. 48/2 Half a world away from the Adirondacks, gazelles in the Gobi Desert rely on ‘snow mines’, oases of water from melting snows buried beneath the sand. P33. colloquial. one of the world's workers: an industrious person; (also) spec. an employee. Sometimes in negative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > one who engages in an activity or occupation > one who is not idle or slothful bee1535 worker1624 one of the world's workers1851 grafter1900 eager beaver1942 1851 Household Words 13 Sept. 592/1 So spoke one of the world's workers ; and there is still need that he should speak, for although the form of the old antagonism be altered, too much of its spirit yet remains. 1898 L. A. Banks Christian Gentleman iii. 27 (heading) The Christian Gentleman as one of the world's workers. 1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise v. 78 ‘So you have become one of the world's workers.’.. ‘Yes; I'm pulling down four solid quid a week.’ 1964 D. Gray Devil wore Scarlet x. 91 ‘Mr. Weston isn't one of the world's workers, exactly,’ said Mary. 1976 G. Moffat Short Time to Live ii. 20 Jackson..is not one of the world's workers, as you must have noticed. 2003 Lincs. Echo (Nexis) 30 Apr. 20 Gladys Blades will be long remembered as one of the world's workers, efforts which included tireless services to the community. P34. In the genitive with superlative adjectives. a. (the) world's greatest (also best, smallest, etc.).In early use esp. in the language of advertising. ΚΠ 1873 New Brunswick (New Jersey) Daily Times 15 Feb. (advt.) Herr Willio,..the world's greatest living Contortionist. 1930 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 11/7 (advt.) ‘Ovaltine’... The world's best ‘night-cap’ to ensure sound, natural sleep. 1941 R. Riskin in Six Screenplays (1997) 628 He's Joe Doakes, the world's greatest stooge and the world's greatest strength. 1955 O. Manning Doves of Venus (1984) ii. vii. 158 ‘My father,’ said Nancy, ‘is the world's most excruciating bore.’ 1957 Billboard 24 June 114 (advt.) Everyone wants a trophy!.. Sayings available:..World's Greatest Dad..World's Most Adorable Baby..World's Greatest Lover. 1977 Listener 3 Mar. 282/1 The entrance of Salomé is greeted by the world's sleeziest tune, ‘La Paloma’. 1981 Bon Appétit Nov. 44/1 (advt.) The world's moistest, yummiest carrot cake. 2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 85 Maybe some supergrass or IRA turncoat had been resettled locally,..so they'd set up the world's best chippy and were waiting for him to show. 2006 Play: N.Y. Times Sports Mag. Nov. 90/1 Who do I put at center mid, the crotch-tugging kid with the world's smallest bladder or the attention-deficit space case? b. the world's worst: a very bad or very incompetent (of a type). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > most unskilful the world's worst1897 1897 Bristol Times & Mirror 19 May 1/7 (advt.) Walton & Lester, The World's Worst Wizards. 1921 T. Wolfe Let. 13 Nov. (1956) 22 ‘The Woman of Bronze’, the world's worst play. 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. i. 248 She was easily the world's worst as a pianist. 1933 L. Einstein in O. W. Holmes Holmes-Einstein Lett. (1964) 352 I hasten to add that they are the world's most famous bridge players and she the world's worst! 1954 R. P. Bissell High Water i. 11 He shaved every other day and of all the Second Mates in the company they could have dumped on me he was the world's worst. 1962 C. Draper Mad Major iv. 88 I am probably the world's worst dancer. 1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone x. 244 Oh, she was a pillhead, yeah. And maybe the world's worst housekeeper too. 1994 Glasgow Herald (Nexis) 26 Jan. 13 It remains unclear why the Prime Minister of Great Britain was lunching with the 92-year-old authoress of the world's worst penny novelettes. 2000 Yahoo! Internet Life Mar. 113/2 You're the world's worst bluffer. P35. colloquial. With a personal name, in the plural. the —— of this world: people considered to represent or be like the type specified. Also in extended use with other proper names. Frequently somewhat derogatory. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > in respect of kind [phrase] > of a kind to in fashion to1562 the —— of this world1897 1897 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 304 The Mrs. Siddons' or Rachels of the world have gained a fame to which even Garrick and Booth cannot approach. 1920 Times 10 Feb. 10/1 The burlesque writers, the Gilberts and others of this world, have come between us and Dryden. 1960 J. Stroud Shorn Lamb iv. 44 He's settling... We're quite used to the Egberts of this world. 1972 Observer 20 Feb. 11/3 There is a limit on how far the Libyas of this world can bid up the price of oil. 2004 J. Colgan Do you remember First Time? viii. 156 Why should fashion belong only to the Britneys of this world, goddamit? P36. out of this world. a. colloquial and slang (originally U.S. Jazz). Predicatively: superlatively good, fine beyond description; beautiful, delightful, wonderful, amazing. Also in adverbial and attributive phrases. ΚΠ 1928 R. Fisher Walls of Jericho 303 Out (of) this world, beyond mortal experience or belief. 1931 Inter-State Tattler 17 Dec. 12 Alberta Hunter..warbles out of this world. 1935 Swing Music July 114/2 Benny's clarinet playing here is out-of-this-world for beauty of tone. 1946 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 19 Oct. 25/3 Petarded on his own cliché And violently hurled, Should be the Joe whose one bon mot Is ‘It's out of this world!’ 1952 G. Wilson Julien Ware 36 A slender, graceful, out-of-this-world bridge Claud…had been. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top vi. 51 You've got a lovely part. Out of this world. 1972 J. Rossiter Rope for General Dietz v. 61 She gave me the skinned fruit... With Cointreau poured on, mine tasted out of this world. 1993 I. Okpewho Tides (1994) 142 But Engineering is out of this world. Like—what do you know about bridges? I mean, about the history and the mechanics of bridges? 2002 N. Minhas Chapatti or Chips? xvii. 196 Apparently she was, quote: ‘Out of this world!’ b. Frequently with hyphen. In neutral or derogatory contexts: unworldly; quite remarkable; (also) incredibly bad or repulsive. Also in attributive phrases. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [phrase] out of this world1941 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adjective] > with quality of strangeness selcouthc888 uncouthc900 sellya1000 ferly?c1225 strangec1374 nicec1395 ferlifula1400 monsterfulc1460 portentous1553 miraculous1569 vengible1594 strangefula1618 phenomenous1743 phenomenala1850 very like a whale1859 weird and wonderful1859 fourth-dimensional1902 out of this world1941 unreal1965 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adverb] > with a degree of strangeness selcouthlyc1175 ferlyc1230 selcoutha1300 disguisilyc1325 ferlifula1400 ferlilya1400 sellylyc1400 miraculouslya1425 ferlifullyc1425 strangelya1450 strangefully1664 portentously1755 miraculous1781 like magic1783 phenomenally1878 out of this world1941 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vii. 149 The gallery was in a funny little bungalow with an easy~going, out-of-this-world atmosphere. 1951 ‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow ii. 32 They hate our guts, and the way they behave is out of this world. 1958 Oxf. Mail 27 Aug. 6/1 The worst part of a woman's magazine..is the fiction. Stories about quite impossible people in out-of-this-world situations. 1963 P. Willmott Evol. Community viii. 92 The L.C.C.'s wallpapers..are very antiquated, out of this world. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. iii. 67 The super cinema..was really something out of this world to the people of the period who'd been used to the local cinema or the old converted theatres. P37. U.S. Military slang. back to the world: back to the United States after active service overseas. Frequently in to go (also get, etc.) back to the world. ΚΠ 1965 R. Marks Let. 9 Aug. in Lett. (1967) 115 A couple of my pals here decided that when we get back to the world we are going to..throw a real wild party. 1968 Xenia (Ohio) Daily Gaz. 19 Feb. 11/1 The 150 servicemen ending their Vietnam duty and waiting for the 8:05 a.m. airline flight for the ‘trip back to the world’. 1971 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 6 5 Get back to the world,..to be discharged and sent home. 1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 28 Apr. (Weekender Mag.) 3/1 He was due to rotate back to ‘the world’, as it was known, in only a few weeks. 1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming ii. xvi. 158 All during their tours of duty, GIs talked about going ‘back to the world’, the expression for returning to the States. 2008 USA Today (Nexis) 2 Apr. 11 a When I came ‘back to the world’ in 1969, I jumped at loud noises and had some unaccountable bouts of bad temper. P38. the world according to ——: the world as perceived or experienced by the specified person (implying an idiosyncratic or unusual outlook). ΚΠ 1978 J. Irving (title) The world according to Garp. 1979 Rotarian Nov. 36 (title) The world according to Will Rogers. ‘I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along.’ 1992 New Musical Express 4 Apr. 18/1 Welcome to the world according to Sly & Lovechild, where glamour puss Elliot and wild child Simon have taken to the stage to inject sass, panache and a dash of glam. 2009 New Yorker 20 July 46/1 In the world according to Sheriff Joe, almost every problem in America these days can somehow be traced back to ‘illegals’. P39. broke to the world: see broke adj. 3a; dead to the world: see dead adj. 3c. to let the world wag (as it will) (also how the world wags and variants): see wag v. 7c. not to be long for this world: see not to be long for this world at long adv.1 Phrases 3e. man of the world: see man of the world n. as old as the world: see old adj. Phrases 2. (it's a) small world: see small world n. and adj. Phrases. to tell the world: see tell v. Phrases 8. (on) top of the world: see top n.1 and adj. Phrases 6n(a). woman of the world: see woman of the world n. at woman n. Phrases 2b. < as lemmas |
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