单词 | to budge against |
释义 | > as lemmasto budge against a. intransitive. To stir, to move from one's place. (Almost always with negative expressed or implied, and said of that which stands firmly or stubbornly.) to budge against, to move against, act in hostility to, is now obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > move [verb (intransitive)] > begin to move or move slightly stirc950 budgea1592 mudge1790 a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Eii Bouge not a foote to aid Prince Rodomant. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlv. 148 He could not be induced to bouge from his place. 1637 Earl of Monmouth tr. V. Malvezzi Romulus & Tarquin 154 [He] doth not budge against his Prince. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 178 I thought th' hadst scorn'd to budge a step, For fear. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man Epil. 76 Not a soul will budge to give him place. 1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1849) 207 The trapper..refused to budge an inch. 1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) x. 252 Showing no inclination to budge. < as lemmas |
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