| 单词 | to break a straw with |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto break a straw with 3. In phrases: to break bread: see bread n. Phrases 1a to break a lance with: to enter the lists against, enter into competition with. to break blows, words with: to exchange blows, words with. †to break a straw with: to fall out with (humorous). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight with [verb (transitive)] fightOE strugglec1386 wrestle1398 cope witha1467 undertake1470 to set one's foot by1536 skirmc1540 make1542 to break blows, words with1589 combata1592 to take up1600 warsle1606 stoush1924 society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > carry on (a contest, fight, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > contend with warc1230 to gripe with1377 repugnc1384 wrestle1398 stema1400 befight1474 vary1496 to break a lance with1589 mud-wrestle1988 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel with [verb (transitive)] > engage in a quarrel with yoke1581 to break blows, words with1589 the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > quarrel or fall at variance [verb (intransitive)] > fall out or enter conflict with to break a straw with1603 society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete with [verb (transitive)] couple1477 envy1509 contend1577 counterscore1577 paragona1586 corrive1586 emulate1586 emule1595 corrival1601 vie1602 rival1607 vie1607 contesta1616 antagonize1634 cope with1651 to break a lance with1862 971 Blickl. Hom. 37 Brec þinne hlaf þearfendum mannum. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. K3 Breaking a few quarter blowes with such countrey glaunces as they coulde. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. viii. 554 I shall breake a strawe or fall at oddes with him, that keepes himselfe so alofte. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. v. 10 Breake a Launce, and runne a-Tilt at Death. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. i. 76 A man may breake a word with you [printed your] sir, and words are but winde. View more context for this quotation 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 263 In 1800 Turner entered classical ground to break a lance with Claude. < as lemmas |
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