| 单词 | the only stick left in one's hedge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe only stick left in one's hedge P1. to hang (also be hung) on (in) the hedge: to be put on one side, to be ‘on the shelf’. to be on the right (also better, safer) or wrong side of the hedge: to be in a right or wrong position. to take a sheet off a hedge: to steal openly. to take hedge: to depart. the only stick left in one's hedge: one's only resource. by hedge or by stile (see quot. 1699). to be on the hedge: = to ‘sit on the fence’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or negligent [verb (intransitive)] > be or remain neglected to hang (also be hung) on (in) the hedge?1515 to stand by1648 ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. B.ii Ye whan my soule hangeth on the hedge cast stones. 1600 P. Holland tr. Florus Breviaries lxix, in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 1246 One who ever loved to be on the better side of the hedge [L. secundam fortunam transire]. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 27 He durst as well take a sheet of an hedge, as come within the cracke of a pistoll. 1639 J. Ford Ladies Triall iv. sig. H4 They durst not give the souze And so tooke hedge. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 64 That much talked of, and employed distinction..of implicite, and explicite, faith..may be hanged on the hedge, for any use is of it. 1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-Jireh 196 Those two Regiments were the onely stick they now had left in their hedge. 1653 R. Baxter Worcester-shire Petition 24 If you say, We have too much in any of these particulars; then we are on the safer side the hedge. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 27 Oct. (1972) VII. 343 The business of money hangs in the hedge. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew By Hedge or by Style, by Hook or by Crook. 1816 Abridgem. Ainsworth's Dict. (at cited word) To be on the wrong side of the hedge, or mistaken, hallucinor, erro. < as lemmas |
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