单词 | to cast beyond the moon |
释义 | > as lemmasto cast beyond the moon a. intransitive (sometimes with subordinate clause). to cast beyond the moon: to conjecture wildly; to indulge in wild conjectures. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > anticipate, forecast [verb (intransitive)] castc1384 forecasta1513 forebode1711 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase] to go beyond the moon?c1430 to cast beyond the moon1559 to lay on load?1562 to lay it on with a trowela1616 all (his) geese are swans1621 to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667 to lay it on thick1740 to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778 to come it1796 to make a thing about (also of)1813 to draw with the long-bow1823 to pitch it strong1823 to overegg the pudding1845 to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865 to god it1870 to strong it1964 to stretch it (or things)1965 the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > form conjectures, guess [verb (intransitive)] > wildly to cast beyond the moon1559 c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame 1148 Thoo gan I in myn hert cast That they were molte awey with hete. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 137 As fer forþ as we conne caste. 1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 92 As far as may be cast or imagiened. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. C.vii He casth beyonde the moone . great diuersitie, Betwene far castyng and wyse castyng, may be. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates 529 Beyond the moone when I began to cast..what place might be procur'd. 1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. A4v [She] began to cast beeyond the Moone..which way she should offend her husband. 1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 510 Maid never schip to saill the see, that for all perrils castis. 1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. F3v But oh: I talke of things impossible, And cast beyond the moone. 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 309 Every man cast in his mind, that Eumenes would be all in all. < as lemmas |
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