单词 | to be gone up |
释义 | > as lemmasto be gone up 9. intransitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). To be brought to ruin or destruction; to be done for; to become bankrupt. Also: to die; to be killed; spec. †to be hanged (obsolete). Frequently in to be gone up. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (intransitive)] > be killed to be deadc1000 fallOE spilla1300 suffera1616 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) toa1774 to lose the number of one's mess1807 to go up1825 to get his (also hers, theirs)1903 to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet1916 click1917 not to know (or to wonder) what hit one1923 to get the works1928 to go for a burton1941 (to get) the chop or chopper1945 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end losec888 fallOE forlesea1225 perishc1275 spilla1300 to go to wreche13.. to go to the gatec1330 to go to lostc1374 miscarryc1387 quenchc1390 to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400 mischieve?a1400 tinea1400 to go to the devilc1405 bursta1450 untwindc1460 to make shipwreck1526 to go to (the) pot1531 to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547 wrake1570 wracka1586 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 to lie in the dusta1591 mischief1598 to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599 shipwreck1607 suffera1616 unravel1643 to fall off1684 tip (over) the perch1699 to do away with1769 to go to the dickens1833 collapse1838 to come (also go) a mucker1851 mucker1862 to go up1864 to go to squash1889 to go (to) stramash1910 to go for a burton1941 to meet one's Makera1978 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 233 Whose narrow escape, when his brother spy ‘went up’, he said, was quite a ‘murigle’. 1864 Liverpool Mercury 8 June 7/3 Soon after the blockade many thought we should ‘go up’ on the salt question. 1867 W. H. Dixon New Amer. I. xi. 132 Gone up, in the slang of Denver, means gone up a tree—that is to say, a cotton tree... In plain English, the man is said to have been hung. 1888 P. H. Sheridan Personal Mem. I. 86 He remarked, ‘Well, I fear that they are gone up,’ a phrase used..to mean that they had been killed. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xvi. 248 We've rather bad news for you..your firm's gone up. 1907 J. Masefield Tarpaulin Muster 101 To your prayers, boys. We're gone up. 1981 M. Harris America Now i. 14 It's all going up... It's too late for anything. 2002 M. Jakober Only call Us Faithful (2006) 259 Fislar's voice was lifeless with defeat. ‘I guess we're gone up, Zack.’ < as lemmas |
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