| 单词 | to beat with the spit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto beat (etc.)..with the spit b. to beat (etc.)..with the spit, to treat with unexpected harshness (following upon kindly usage or hospitality). Now only dialect (in transferred use). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > [verb (transitive)] > treat with unexpected unkindness to beat (etc.)‥with the spit1553 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 72 b Suche are not to be lyked that geue a man a shoulder of mutton, and breake his heade with the spitte when thei haue doen. 1584 R. Greene Arbasto 26 Thou art bidden to the feast by loue, and art beaten with the spit by beauty. 1674 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 296 He gave me roast meat and beat me with the spit. 1686 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 186 Din'd at the College. [note] ‘Gave me roast-meat and beat me with the spit.’ 1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 43 To bid one to roast and beat him with the spit. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘Nevver invite a friend to a roast and then beat him with the spit,’ do not confer a favor and then make the obligation felt. < as lemmas |
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