单词 | to bore to tears |
释义 | > as lemmasto bore (a person) to tears to tears: to the point of crying, esp. in to move (a person) to tears. Also hyperbolically, usually in to bore (a person) to tears; cf. to death at death n. Phrases 1. ΚΠ 1579 T. Churchyard Miserie of Flaunders sig. Bii To tell you all, their battailes here a rowe, Would moue your minde, and heauie harte to tears. 1678 T. Shadwell Hist. Timon v. 73 Good men, you much surprise me, even to tears. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 282 It would have mov'd any one to Tears, to have seen how Friday kiss'd him. 1796 F. Burney Camilla V. ix. ix. 201 It sunk to his heart, dispirited him to tears, and sent him, extremely ill, to bed. 1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 36 His very gestures touched to tears The unpersuaded tyrant, never So moved before. 1893 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 84/2 Honorable Arthur, simple, frank, direct, sensible, and he bores me almost to tears. 1992 Gramophone Jan. 22/3 ‘This thing moves me to tears’, he says of the Vespers, though he has never heard the recording in its final form. 2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land xii. 121 He was starting up his own business..and within minutes was boring us to tears with share ownership and product-placement plans. < as lemmas |
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