单词 | to cast in the teeth with |
释义 | > as lemmasto cast (one) in the teeth with d. to cast (one) in the teeth with (something), later to cast (a thing) in one's teeth (see cast v. 65), †to hit (one) in the teeth with (obsolete), to throw in (one's) teeth: to reproach, upbraid, or censure with; to bring up in reproach against. (In quot. 1596 at Phrases 2 to throw in (one's) teeth = to send or direct defiantly against: cf. Phrases 1b, Phrases 3b.) Also in similar phrases expressing reproachful or defiant utterance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [verb (transitive)] > reproach with upbraida1250 undernimc1320 to lay to one's credit, reproachc1515 to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526 to twit (a person) in the teeth1530 to hit (one) in the teeth with1535 to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551 to fling (anything) in one's teeth1587 to throw (thrust, fling, (etc.)) (something) in a person's face1597 to tit (a person) in the teeth1622 nose1625 exprobrate1630 puta1663 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. xxvii. 44 The murtherers also that were crucified with him, cast the same in his tethe. 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. sig. b ivv Take it not that I hit you here in the teeths with oure good turnes. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 147 Some..will not sticke to hit him in the teeth, that he was the sonne of [etc.]. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. ii. 42 To armes, for I haue throwne A braue defiance in king Henries teeth. View more context for this quotation 1614 J. Day Dyall Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3v Caius of Cambridge did twit vs in the teeth with some of our Founders here in Oxford that had beene themselues Cambridge Men. 1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) ii. 53 He giueth to all liberally, and hitteth no man in the teeth. 1640 Sir W. Boswell in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Misc. Lett. 27 The main things that they hit in our teeth are, our Bishops to be called Lords. 1694 F. Bragge Pract. Disc. Parables xiii. 441 This neglect of family-devotions is often thrown in our teeth. a1821 J. Keats Otho iv. ii, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 181 In thy teeth I give thee back the lie! 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 441/2 Perpetually throwing in the teeth of the second wife the unrivalled virtues..of the first. < as lemmas |
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