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单词 to draw eyeteeth
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to 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.
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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.
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