| 单词 | to beat up recruits |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto beat up recruits 27. figurative. With up in many constructions, as to beat up for recruits, to beat up the town for recruits, to beat up recruits, and elliptical, to beat up. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist soldiers [verb (intransitive)] recruit1655 beat1696 1696 T. Brookhouse Temple Opened 21 Beating up for Voluntiers, by a New Predication. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 261. ¶1 A Captain of Dragoons..beating up for Recruits in those Parts. 1758 J. Ray Compl. Hist. Rebell. 151 They also endeavour'd to levy Men here, and beat up publickly for that Purpose. 1797 R. Southey Botany Bay Eclogues in Poems 87 A Sergeant to the fair recruiting came..to beat up for game. 1824 Trevelyan in Life Macaulay (1876) I. iii. 146 Macaulay beat up the Inns of Court for recruits. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) iii. v. 171 He tarried..to beat up recruits for his colony. 1879 J. R. Lowell Poet. Wks. 418 If a poet Beat up for themes, his verse will show it. 1885 Manch. Examiner 8 July 5/3 Any effort to beat up pecuniary help outside the ranks. < as lemmas |
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