单词 | to bring a charge home |
释义 | > as lemmasto bring a charge home (to) b. to bring a charge home (to): to fix a charge upon; to convict. ΚΠ 1659 N. Hardy First Epist. John: 2nd Pt. (ii. 15) xxi. 418 That he might bring the charge home to their consciences, he repeats it with the change of the Abstract into the Concrete, Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God. 1742 London Mag. Sept. 425/2 Neither Boteler, nor any of them, can charge the Minister. It is Paxton only can bring the charge home to him. 1795 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 104 I..demand..that the person..do fully, and expressly bring home his charge. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 17/1 He could not bring his charge home to any definite person. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 207 The charge is..not brought home to William. 1915 G. O. Trevelyan Amer. Revol. (new ed.) II. xx. 341 The Revolutionary authorities were unable to bring the charge home to a single one of the perpetrators. 1970 in V. Kumar Commitees & Comm. in India 1947–73 (1979) IX. 269/2 The longer an investigation is deferred the greater the difficulty in bringing the charge home to the defaulter. 1997 Nature 1 May 27/3 The charge of having vegetarian proclivities has now been brought home to four species. < as lemmas |
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