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单词 to be on one's peremptors
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to be (also stand) on (also at) one's peremptors
2. colloquial to be (also stand) on (also at) one's peremptors: to be on top form or one's best behaviour; to be at one's wit's end. Obsolete.
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a1709 J. Nimmo Narr. (1889) 17 But yet the difficulties of Parke's affaires..made me oft at my peremptors how to guid.
1814 J. Galt Watchhouse ii. iv. 64 Heh, Doctor, but ye're devilish witty. We must be on our peremptors wi'you.
1827 C. I. Johnstone Elizabeth De Bruce III. ii ‘I am no pretender to carnal knowledge,’ quoth I—for I at first stood on my peremptors.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 8/2 He could have seen the wisdom o' being a wee bit twa-faced, like his neighbours, and on his peremptors before folk, ony way.
extracted from peremptoradj.n.adv.
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