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单词 to cast out of the saddle
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to cast out of the saddle
c. to cast out of the saddle and variants: to unhorse; (hence) to deprive of office or position; to usurp the position of, depose. Now rare. [Compare German einen aus dem Sattel heben (16th cent.).]
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1590 W. Segar Bk. Honor & Armes iv. vi. 69 He that is cast out of the Saddle by violence of his aduersaries encounter, shall bee more reprooued, than he who falleth by the default of his horse.
1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xl. sig. Cc3 Innumerable are the examples of States, and Citties burnt to Ashes..by these particuler Chimneyes, by Marius and Sylla, the Romaines state lost her sturrops; by Caesar, and Pompey was cast out of the Saddle.
1651 T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 487 A Governour that will be loved and generally spoken well of, must hold an easie reine; but where mettle Colts or restie jades are to be broken, he that holdeth not a streight raine, and maketh not use of a strong curbe, may be cast out of the saddle.
1753 W. Warburton Let. 16 Aug. in Lett. Late Eminent Prelate (?1793) lix. 109 Written with much fury, by a wrathful Presbyterian member, who was cast out of the saddle with the rest, by the Independents.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 43 My rascal Dutton..by dint of his outlandish qualifications, threw his rival Clinker out of the saddle of her heart.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. i. 4 I have known when my bare word would have cast the best man-at-arms among ye out of saddle and out of service.
1829 M. R. Lacy Maid of Judah iii. vii. 60 I will cast them out of the saddle with my single lance.
1993 Newsweek 29 Mar. 52/3 When they take the chance that I had and allot it to three women just because they're female, that burns me up... I got shot out of the saddle.
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