| 单词 | to cast, chase, drive, hunt, scare, etc out of house and home |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cast, chase, drive, hunt, scare, etc. (a person) out of house and home house and home n. (used for alliterative emphasis) a person's home; in early use esp. in to cast, chase, drive, hunt, scare, etc. (a person) out of house and home; now chiefly in to eat (a person) out of house and home: see eat v. 4a.Similarly house and hall, house and harbour, etc. (now rare; regional in later use). [Compare similar alliterative phrases in other Germanic languages, e.g. Middle Dutch huus ende hof, huus ende erve, etc., Middle Low German hūs unde hof, German Haus und Heim (16th cent.), (now usually) Haus und Hof (15th cent.).] ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > home homeOE homesteadOE house and homelOE hearthstone1659 home dwelling1743 establishment1803 hearth and home1822 roof1853 yard1865 down home1920 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1129 Se þe þet ne wolden [i.e. who was not willing to repudiate his wife] done forgede his circe & his hus & his ham. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 35 (MED) For ðessere eadi hope hie forlateð fader and moder, wif and children, hus and ham, and alle worldes wele and blisse. c1275 ( Will of Siflæd (Sawyer 1525a) in D. Whitelock Anglo-Saxon Wills (1930) 94 Al þat þere to lafe gesceotte, þat beth on Mardingforða hus and hom & wude and feld & on medwe and on yrue. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 7702 (MED) He caste out of house & hom of men a gret route. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 229 Men of þe lond were i-dryve out of hir hous and hir home. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 408 Smartly I þe teche Of my hous & my home. 1527 W. Tyndale Doctr. Treat. (1848) 122 The prayers of them that..eat the poor out of house and harbour. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. viii. f. xxi Quhasa..hurtis ony vther man and hareis him out of house and harbarie. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Epimenides in Panoplie Epist. 204 Hunted out of house and home. a1625 J. Boys Wks. (1629) 264 That tenant deserues to be thrust out of house and home..that implieth all the best roomes vnto the basest offices. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 82 Provided that no man..be..cast out of house, harbor, or the freedom that he hath hitherto enjoyed. View more context for this quotation 1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 40 239 Whole Families are entirely routed out of House and Home. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Harry ‘He harried me out of house and home’; that is, he robbed me of my goods and turned me out of doors. 1826 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 300/1 We maun either be burned to death, or out of house and hall, without a rag to cover our nakedness. 1892 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Nov. 623 Enough to frighten a man like him out of house and harbor. 1956 Atlantic 198/6 Very few workers..had yet been forced to sell house and home. 2003 Mojo Nov. 146/2 In anybody else's hands the sheer pompousness of her undertaking would be laughed out of house and home. < as lemmas |
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