英语词汇“to break one's gall”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†c. Hence, to break one's gall: in early use, to break the spirit, cow, subdue; in later slang (see quot. 1785). Obsolete.

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society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (intransitive)] > make submissive

to break one's galla1500

to close down1869

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 306 I warand you..That he shall soyn yelde the gast, For brestyn is his gall.

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 206 Obey, theif baird, or I sall brek thy gaw.

c1530 Remedie of Love lxv, in Chaucer's Wks. (1532) 368 a/1 Whiche she perceyuyng brasteth his gal And anon his great wodenesse dothe fal.

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 142/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The deputie, when he had broken the galles of them, & had thus dispersed them,..returned towards Dublin.

1625–6 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1638 I still defied them..which in a manner broke their very galls.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) His gall is not yet broken, a saying used in prisons of a man just brought in, who appears melancholy and dejected.

单词	to break one's gall
释义	> as lemmas to break one's gall †c. Hence, to break one's gall: in early use, to break the spirit, cow, subdue; in later slang (see quot. 1785). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (intransitive)] > make submissive to break one's galla1500 to close down1869 a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 306 I warand you..That he shall soyn yelde the gast, For brestyn is his gall. a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 206 Obey, theif baird, or I sall brek thy gaw. c1530 Remedie of Love lxv, in Chaucer's Wks. (1532) 368 a/1 Whiche she perceyuyng brasteth his gal And anon his great wodenesse dothe fal. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 142/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The deputie, when he had broken the galles of them, & had thus dispersed them,..returned towards Dublin. 1625–6 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1638 I still defied them..which in a manner broke their very galls. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) His gall is not yet broken, a saying used in prisons of a man just brought in, who appears melancholy and dejected. extracted from galln.¹ < as lemmas
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