| 单词 | to be threshed with your own flail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be threshed with your own flail b. figurative. Also in phrase to be threshed with your own flail: to be treated as you have treated others. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > make a return [verb (intransitive)] > come back on one (of one's own action) to be threshed with your own flail1490 hoist with his own petard1604 to come home to roost1810 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xxxii. 121 Beten wyth the flayel of fortune. 1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 23 Faith Martin, you shall bee thresht with your owne flaile. 1682 J. Dryden Mac Flecknoe 7 A Scourge of Wit, and Flaile of Sence. 1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 302 Flails of oratory thresh the floor. 1831 T. Carlyle Jrnl. Oct. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. ix. 208 A tall, loose..vehement-looking flail of a man. < as lemmas |
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