| 单词 | thick and fast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthick and fast 3. In close or rapid succession; frequently; quickly; fast. Often thick and fast. (See also thick and threefold at sense 6.) ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adverb] unseldea950 oftOE thickOE ylomeOE oftsithec1175 oftsithesc1175 lomec1200 oftlya1225 oft-stounds1303 continuallyc1305 oftena1325 rifely1357 oft-timesc1384 oft-timec1387 oftentimesa1393 oftentimec1395 fele-sitha1400 lightlya1400 oftentide?a1400 rifea1400 seresitha1400 many a foldc1400 often sithec1405 hauntinglyc1440 by many a foldc1450 fele-syss1489 frequently1531 feltymesc1540 oftens1567 oftenly1574 frequent1614 repeatedlya1647 (as) often as not1723 more often (or oftener) than not1723 not uncommonly1747 not infrequently1779 (at) every whip-stitch1824 oftenwhilesa1850 at short intervals1859 OE Genesis 684 Hio spræc him þicce to. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Cleopatras. 655 Ffor strokys whiche that wente as thikke as hayl. ?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 255 She schal nothing say butte ‘Mea culpa, I wylle amende’, whiche sche schal reherse thykke and many tymes. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 43 The sayd apparaunce & attendaunce commeth so often and thicke together. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 28v At midnight one Cocke croweth timely but six,..At three a clocke thicker. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxi. 210 Great talkers discharge too thick to take alwayes true aim. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 98 He and his Brother Jacks..toss Jests and Oaths about as thick and fast, as Boys do Squibs. 1729 W. Law Serious Call xx. 378 It will perhaps be thought..that these hours of prayer come too thick. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xi. 66 Thick and fast indeed came the events. thick and fast 6. Phrases. to lay it on thick: see 1c. thick and fast: see 3. thick and threefold adv. (n., adj.) phr. extracted from thickadv. a. In large numbers; in quick succession; with rapid iteration. archaic and dialect. ΚΠ 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxvj When mo newe Testamentes were Imprinted, thei came thicke and threfold into Englande. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxxxiiij There dwell deuylles thycke and threfolde. a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) i. sig. A4 How that such clients clustred to thy Court By thick and threefold. 1614 J. Day Dyall 218 Our Antipodes of Rome that so much boast of the Fathers, and how they are theirs thicke and threefold. 1711 tr. S. Werenfels Disc. Logomachys 3 Scoffs and Reproaches come thick and threefold. 1872 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes 163 A..writer..who threw aspersions on his opponents thick and threefold. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impetuosity > [adverb] impetuously1485 in flagrant blood1614 thick and threefold1627 head-foremost1697 hot-headedly1777 head first1839 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 295 So thicke and threefold he falles vpon his deuotion. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adjective] commona1325 ofta1382 yedera1400 oftena1450 thick?c1450 repeated1577 obvious1586 crebrousc1600 frequent1604 thick and threefold1615 oftentime1876 oft-time1895 1615 J. Day Festivals 302 The Commendations given Anna here are thicke and threefold. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 242 This thick and threefold companionship with [the] birch was not the only rub. < as lemmas |
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