| 单词 | to draw eyeteeth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto draw (a person's) eyeteeth P4. to draw (a person's) eyeteeth: to take the strength, pride, or self-confidence out of (someone); to humiliate; to dupe or cheat. Now rare. In quot. 1789 as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 1789 T. Holcroft tr. Frederick II Let. in Posthumous Wks. XI. cx. 381 There is nothing to apprehend from the Jesuits. The cordelier, Ganganelli, has pared their nails, drawn their eye-teeth, and disabled them from scratching and biting. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well (1824) III. x. 186 You snarled at the Philistines, and they have drawn your eye-teeth with a vengeance! 1836 Bell's Life in London 6 Nov. B wins. A must have had his eye teeth drawn. 1867 W. H. Dixon New Amer. I. i. 1 Guess these Yanks must look alive..unless they should happen to enjoy having their eye-teeth drawn. 1890 R. Kipling in Pioneer Mail 26 Mar. 429/2 He might..draw your eye-teeth in a bargain, and applaud 'cuteness on the outer verge of swindling. 1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 117 To draw a person's eye-teeth, le rendre moins sûr de lui. < as lemmas |
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