| 单词 | to darken daylights |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto darken daylights to darken daylights: to fill a glass to the brim in the drinking of a toast.extracted from daylightn.to darken (a person's) daylights a. to darken (a person's) daylights: to give (a person) black eyes; (more generally) to knock senseless; to beat, punch. Cf. sense 3. Now archaic. ΚΠ 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. xi. 86 If the Lady says such another Word to me..I'll darken her Daylights. 1786 Microcosm No. 2. 20 The noble art of boxing, was..reduced to a complete and perfect system; and the Nobility and Gentry were taught..to bruise the bodies, and (to use a technical term) darken the daylights of each other. 1840 New Monthly Mag. Feb. 243 I wish I was outside these bars, I'd darken your daylights, and knock your ivory cribbage-pegs down your throat. 1871 Lizzie Leigh i. i. 10 in Lacy's Acting Ed. XCIII Look out, bobby, or I'll darken your daylights. 2000 J. Burke in E. Gorman World's Finest Myst. & Crime Stories (2001) 2 448 Daresay you'll have a mouse under your right eye. Was it Henry who tried to darken your daylights? < as lemmas |
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