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单词 to be one's own man
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to be one's own man (also woman, person)
c. to be one's own man (also woman, person), etc.
(a) To have command or control of oneself; to be in full possession of one's senses, faculties, powers, or health.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > be sane [verb (intransitive)]
to be one's own man (also woman, person)1556
to have all one's buttons (on)1890
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 6577 (MED) If I be noght myn oghne man..I mai miselve noght recovere.
1556 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. ii. App. lviii. 197 When you were lunatike and not your owne man.
1562 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 79 This respondent..fell into such sorowe that he was not his owne man.
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. A2v The King never called her by any other appellation, but his sweetest and dearest Sister, and was scarce his own-man, she being absent.
1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 82 For though full light, when her own woman, Yet in this heavy dump was no man Could raise her up.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xlix. 287 Faith, Jack, thou hadst half undone me with thy nonsense... But I think I am my own man again.
1779 F. Burney Let. 5–20 July (1994) 333 Since I writ last, I have been far from well,—but I am now my own man again—à peu pres.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxxvi I ate a bit at six o'clock, and drunk a deal of small beer, and I am almost my own man again now.
1894 A. Gordon Northward Ho! 81 In any case, the crofter, in the doctor's phrase, would ‘never be his ain man again’.
1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxiv. 278 ‘You bet we have,’ piped Davy cheerfully, quite his own man again.
1996 T. Parker Violence of our Lives iv. 146 If I'd met her outside when I was my own person and not in a drug mist I'd have been very attracted to her just the same.
(b) To be independent; to take decisions for oneself; to be free from the influence or authority of other people.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > be independent [verb (intransitive)]
to have one's own rulea1393
to be one's own man (also woman, person)a1425
to be one's own master?1510
to stand on one's own bottom1564
to sit loose1591
independa1657
to paddle one's own canoe1828
to go it alone1842
to run one's own show1892
to go one's (own) gait1922
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 750 I am myn owene womman, wel at ese.
1533 T. More Apologye f. 125 Of these sort was there one..whiche wente aboute to make a good bargayne, and was not than knowe but for his owne man and yet is now his own man agayn.
1556 in W. H. Frere Marian Reaction (1896) App. xiii. 219 The violence and compulsion done unto him..hath soo wrought in him that he could never be his owne man syns, his conscience always gryffing him.
1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. ix. 725 And being sui Iuris, her own woman, as we terme it, hauing no husband to be her head: her supreme gouernement is the lesse restrayned.
1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan iii. i I assure you ile nere marry... Marry God forfend..ile liue my owne woman.
1680 Revenge; or, Match in Newgate iii. i. 26 No, no, I'll live my own woman, I—and let the worst come to the worst, I had rather be call'd Wanton than a Fool.
1685 A. Lovell tr. R. Simon Crit. Hist. Relig. Eastern Nations xiii. 135 They are wholly their own Men, having no spiritual Exercise in Common for the service of their Neighbour.
1768 Monthly Rev. 38 399 The princess would be her own woman, and that the king neither would nor the junta should have to do with her in things of that nature.
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer v. 106 So Constance Neville may marry whom she pleases, and Tony Lumpkin is his own man again.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. iv. 72 Pardon me for not being quite frank towards you..but I dare not; I am not now my own man.
1859 M. T. Vidal Ellen Raymond xvi. 218 I am free from all possible fetters; I am my own woman. I need not leave so much as a mourning ring to a soul!
1875 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 192/1 He would be his own man and could work his way to the highest honors of his art without calling any one master.
1919 V. E. Roe Tharon of Lost Valley iii. 54 ‘Nope,’ she finished sadly, ‘I ain't my own woman yet.’
1952 Times 1 Nov. 6/2 ‘No one has captured me. I am my own man,’ said General Eisenhower.
1991 C. Mansall Discover Astrol. vii. 150/1 You have to be your own person, which is sometimes a terrible responsiblity.
2003 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 11 Aug. 25 The decision—and Denise is her own woman, believe me—will be hers and hers alone.
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