英语词汇“to feel like”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1. to feel (out) one's way and variants: to find one's way by groping or treading carefully; (figurative) to proceed cautiously or tentatively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > try experiments or make experiment [verb (intransitive)] > proceed tentatively

to feel (out) one's waya1450

to grope one's way1862

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (intransitive)] > grope about

feela1382

to fathom aboutc1400

to feel (out) one's waya1450

grabble1579

pouter1812

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > be cautious or take care [verb (intransitive)] > proceed with caution

to make it wisec1405

to feel (out) one's waya1450

to beat the bush1526

to beat about the bush1572

callc1650

to call canny1814

go-easy1860

to plough around1888

pussyfoot1902

to play it by ear1922

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > effect forward movement in specific way > tentatively or by feeling

to grope one's way1574

to feel (out) one's way1638

to fumble one's way1801

a1450 ( Libel Eng. Policy (Laud) in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 165 He [sc. kynge Edwarde] felde the weyes to reule well the see.

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos iii. sig. H.iij A post in hand he bare of mighty Pyne, and therwithall He felt his way, and led his sheepe.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §144. 108 While we have our eyes, we need not feele out our way.

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Y/3 A blind Man that feels his Way with a stick.

1758 J. Lawson Lect. conc. Oratory xxiii. 436 We can proceed only by Conjecture; like one walking in dim Twilight, feeling out our Way, and chusing our Steps with much timorous Caution.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lxxxi. 43 We but feel our way to err.

1862 G. MacDonald David Elginbrod ii. xxviii An aging moon was feeling her path somewhere through the heavens.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiv. 217 Cæsar..feeling his way with his cavalry.

1910 Christian Reg. (Boston) 25 Aug. 911/1 He felt out his way alone to faith in a better God and a saner universe.

2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) ii. 12 I killed the lights, felt my way down the stairs and landings, [etc.].

P2. to feel as if, to feel as though: (with following clause) to have a subjective impression or experience likened to the specified situation or event.

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1534 J. Fewterer tr. U. Pinder Myrrour Christes Passion ii. f. cxxvii^v When he was borne..she felte as if halfe her herte had bene borne and departed from her body.

1606 R. Chambers tr. P. Numan Miracles lately Wrought 210 He felt as if certain strings had been broken in his eyes.

1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding ⁋80 These suggestions..did so over-weigh my heart..that I felt as if there were nothing else but these from morning to night within me.

1742 D. Brainerd Diary 4 Nov. in Acct. Life D. Brainerd (1765) 49 The Lord will not allow me to feel as though I were fully supplied and satisfied.

1771 E. Griffith tr. ‘P. Viaud’ Shipwreck 58 While we were asunder, we felt as if a limb was wanting.

1802 J. Baillie Second Marriage i. i, in Plays II. 366 When I look upon her poor children playing about, I feel as tho' they were my own flesh and blood.

1816 S. Gridley Diss. Importance & Associability Human Stomach 4 They experienced this distressing sensation, and felt as though the stomach was rolling over.

1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate vi I must go with you. I feel as if I could not bear to stay behind!

1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) ix. xi. 269 The jargon of that column made me feel as though I had never learned any English at all.

2011 New Yorker 18 Apr. 126/3 This is the kind of show that makes us feel as if we had a seat at the dining-room table.

P3. to feel one's feet (also legs, wings): to be conscious of one's abilities; to be at ease or comfortable in oneself; (more generally) to be firmly established or settled in a particular environment or situation. Occasionally also: (of a child or young animal) to be able to stand or walk. Cf. to find one's feet at find v. Phrases 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > be able to [verb (intransitive)] > be conscious of or develop one's powers

to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)1579

to find one's feet1977

the mind > emotion > calmness > compose or make calm [verb (transitive)] > be calm or composed

to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)1579

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > feel or be confident [verb (intransitive)]

wit1297

to know one's own mind1658

to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)1889

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. So flew Virgile, as not yet well feeling his wings.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia viii. 427 Give me leave to come leisurely to London, that in that time I may feel my Legs, and try how agreeable the natural Sweets of England by degrees may be.

a1776 J. Griffith Jrnl. Life, Trav., & Labours in Work of Ministry (1779) 28 They..gave me full opportunity to make proof of my ministry, and to feel my feet therein.

1860 Punch 2 June 220/2 That little tiny tottering thing [sc. a baby] just learning to feel its legs.

1881 Daily Tel. 27 Dec. It was not until the last act that he ‘felt his legs’.

1889 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 217 Trees put in now cannot be expected to succeed as well as those that are already beginning to ‘feel their feet’.

1912 Ld. Redesdale Let. 10 May in E. Gosse Life A. C. Swinburne (1917) (App. I) 320 It was at Eton that he began to feel his wings.

1932 C. Clark Shakespeare & National Char. xxii. 274 Englishmen..were beginning to feel their feet in the new paths of exploration and discovery.

2007 M. J. Staples Price of Freedom i. 13 Lots of women are beginning to feel their feet these days, and I'm one of them.

P4. Nautical. to feel her (also the) helm: (of a ship) to respond to movement of the helm. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > be influenced or affected by

to feel her helm1591

1591 W. Raleigh Rep. Fight Iles of Açores sig. B2 The shippe could neither make way nor feele the helme.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 5 Many times the ships will feele no helme.

1749 E. Turrell Life B. Colman iii. 13 They called to them not to stir for their Lives, lest the Vessel upon such a Motion within should not feel her Helm.

1838 J. F. Cooper Homeward Bound I. xi. 163 The ship's head was to the south-southwest, her drift considerable, and her way of course barely sufficient to cause her to feel her helm.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Feel the helm, To have good steerage way, carrying taut weather-helm, which gives command of steerage. Also said of a ship when she has gained headway after standing still and begins to obey the helm.

1920 Federal Reporter 261 621 The collision came so soon that the witnesses for the schooner all testify that the schooner did not have time to feel her helm.

1970 Times 9 Jan. 4/2 The Moyle was just feeling her helm when there was a bump aft, and heavy vibration.

P5. to make oneself (also one's presence) felt: to have a significant effect or influence, esp. indirectly.

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1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. ii. i. 119 The thoughts of a Diuinity..make themselves felt [Fr. se font sentir] with very piercing points.

1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. iv. 77 The whole money may still be in the state, and make itself felt by the encrease of prices.

1795 Confiscation Considered 44 The British Army has scarcely ever appeared..in any country, without making its presence felt.

1857 J. C. Stretton Lady of Glynne I. viii. 65 It took me a long time to learn, that to be duly valued, you must make yourself felt in some way.

1931 Washington Post Sept. 27 7/5 Soviet Russia is making herself felt in Egyptian markets.

2014 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Nov. (Sport section) 42 He is Celtic's most influential player and I know he will make his presence felt tomorrow night.

P6. to feel like.

a. To have a subjective impression or conviction of being.

ΚΠ

1771 R. Cumberland West Indian iv. viii. 76 She has cooled the lad's courage, and wonders he feels like a coward.

1786 County Mag. Sept. 134/2 I felt like a man who is neither old nor insensible.

1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. i. 3 She felt like one Half-wakened from a midnight dream of blood.

1860 Widow Bedott Papers 108 Them special efforts is great things—ever since I come out, I've felt like a new critter.

1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill viii. 253 It made him feel like a social cull or an outcast, or something.

2012 J. Thayil Narcopolis i. iii. 38 I felt like an interloper from the future.

b. colloquial (originally U.S.). With gerund, verbal noun, or noun phrase: to wish to do or have something; to have an inclination for. Cf. like adj. 6.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb]

willeOE

listc1200

to be of (also in) (a) minda1325

to will well that1340

likea1375

to find in one's hearta1393

to have a minda1400

pleasec1450

set1470

to have a mind1530

care1560

fadge1592

please1611

choose1622

offer1639

to feel like1808

1808 N. Bisbee Hist. Falcos iii. ii. 85 He will not feel much like going to old Recrementa's to-night, to have a frolic there.

1865 U. S. Grant in Cent. Mag. (1889) Nov. 142/2 I now feel like ending the matter..before we go back.

1887 E. H. D'Avigdor Loose Rein 165 He did not feel like lunch.

1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax viii. 82 I'll go straight home. I don't feel exactly like a street-corner meeting.

1970 W. J. Burley To kill Cat ii. 45 They had a drink together, then Helen said that she felt like bed.

2011 Time Out N.Y. 21 Apr. 16/2 If you feel like sampling some of the sweets, try the signature Papa Payard.

P7. to feel to: to be inclined to do something (chiefly U.S.); (also) to imagine or have the impression of doing something.

ΚΠ

1804 J. Southcott True Explan. Bible: Pt. 1st iii. 241 When she thinks of the beginning of his conduct, love and anger wounds her breast; she feels to pity him, and feels to be sorry for him.

1836 Going to Service xii. 141 People would take liberties with her, and I should feel to have to take care of her.

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) (at cited word) To feel to do a thing is an expression commonly used by some clergymen, for to feel inclined, to be disposed to do it.

1866 London Society Oct. 315/2 When he wants one [sc. a cigar], he takes it; when he does not feel to want one, he goes without it.

1891 A. Forbes in 19th Cent. Dec. 1018 In reading which one feels to hear the turmoil of the battle.

1943 G. G. Coulton Fourscore Years 323 He would write in the light of what he now feels to know.

1948 Z. N. Hurston Seraph on Suwanee xv. 139 She could creep out there at times unbeknowings to Jim and handle them when she felt to.

1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) ii. 48 Kutunda..felt to occupy the only undistorted quadrant of the car.

2005 J. M. Chernoff Exchange is not Robbery v. 181 And one other day, I was feeling to do something like bluffing.

P8. to feel (quite) oneself, to feel (quite) like oneself, and variants: to seem to oneself to be in one's usual state of health or frame of mind.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > be in state of health [verb (intransitive)] > be in usual health

to live and lookc1390

to be myselfa1675

to feel (quite) oneself1812

to look oneself1822

to feel (quite) like oneself1838

to feel (like) myself1886

1812 J. Galt Maddalen iii. viii, in Tragedies 53 I now begin to feel myself again.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xliii. 141 I don't feel like myself when you lay that withered old claw on my shoulder, so take it away.

1865 Mrs. H. Wood Mildred Arkell I. ix I don't feel myself.

1890 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 27 Nov. 515/1 For some two weeks..he had not felt quite like himself, but he had had absolutely no cough.

1913 H. S. Harrison V. V.'s Eyes xxviii. 404 Cally had to assure him half a dozen times in as many blocks that she felt quite herself again.

1950 A. White Lost Traveller vi. i. 259 Will you let him come and talk to you when you're feeling a little more yourself?

2011 S. Busbee Rapture becomes Her iv. 61 His lordship is not feeling himself—we think it was something he ate.

2014 D. Macomber Love Lett. (2016) 113 Ellie didn't feel like herself in the morning until she had a cup of coffee.

P9. colloquial. to feel up to: to consider oneself capable of; to have the strength or energy for. Cf. up adv.² 19a(a).

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1829 New Monthly Mag. 26 233 On mornings when I did not feel up to conclusions with any thing very formidable.

1841 F. Trollope Charles Chesterfield v. 47 ‘Do you feel up to a little écarté, Amelia?’ ‘I am fit for nothing else,’ replied the lady.

1884 Graphic 30 Aug. 231/1 I did not feel up to much fatigue.

1923 Boys' Life Oct. 59/1 If I didn't feel up to taking the responsibilities it would be better to drop the thing altogether.

2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty lxxix. 290 Two hours and several all-day breakfasts later, we were all feeling up to doing something with the day.

P10. colloquial. to feel one's age: to become aware or be reminded that one is no longer young.

ΚΠ

1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. xx. 335 For the first time in my life I felt my age and my celibacy.

1868 Sunshine & Shade I. xiv. 225 We are getting very old, Mr. Rowe; these young people make us feel our age.

1937 Life Nov. 13/3 (advt.) When digestion slows down you feel your age.

1986 Washington Post 16 Nov. b6/1 I know what it is. It's all that young blood in Congress. You're feeling your age.

2014 Sc. Express (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Editorial section) 18 She is starting to feel her age when she looks at recent pictures of herself.

P11. colloquial (originally U.S.). feel free to (do something): used as an invitation or for reassurance to tell someone that he or she has the speaker's permission to perform a particular action; ‘don't hesitate’ (to do the thing specified). Also elliptically as feel free: ‘go ahead’, ‘please do’.

ΚΠ

1897 Midland Monthly Mag. Oct. 335/1 ‘Please feel free to tell us just what you think about this..problem.’ Mr. Fargo..whispered, ‘Go ahead, Maud—-say what you like.’

1922 Northwestern Druggist May 34/1 What do you do? Feel free to write us about it.

1948 Univ. Mich. School Educ. Bull. Dec. 35 Feel free to change your plans for using the consultant after he has arrived.

1989 G. E. Klyve & C. G. Oakley Legend of Perseus iii. 86 ‘You don't mind do you?’ said the pirate... ‘Oh no. Not at all. By all means. Feel free.’

2009 E. Thom Tin-kin 33 Come and ask us if you're needing anything. Feel free.

P12. slang. to feel the draught: to be seriously troubled or inconvenienced; to feel insecure, esp. financially.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)]

tholec897

pinea1225

steada1300

endure1340

to well in woea1350

labourc1450

concernc1592

to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1647

to have the wind in one's face1649

to be on (also at) the receiving end1909

to feel the draught1925

to have (one's) ass in a sling1960

to be in lumber1965

the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)]

to have needOE

needa1300

to have mistera1400

to be low in the world1521

lack1523

pinch1549

to be beforehand (also behindhand) in (or with) the world1615

to feel the pinch1861

to feel the draught1925

1925 Westm. Gaz. 27 Apr. When the wind changed it might be the Conservative Party which would be feeling the draught.

1941 N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys vii. 103 ‘Did he go bust?’..‘I don't think so, Curtis. Must have felt the draught a bit.’

1970 Financial Times 13 Apr. 13/3 If..the bigger firms in the private sector felt the draught and turned their attention to smaller orders, the lesser firms could suffer badly.

2013 N. Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 Aug. 33 Smaller businesses..must be feeling the draught as customers—already hit by rising prices from here to eternity—simply stay away.

P13. slang (originally U.S.). to feel no pain: to be insensibly drunk.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > be drunk > be insensibly drunk

begonec1370

to feel no pain1929

1929 San Antonio (Texas) Express 20 Oct. 6 d/3 By dinner time the Judge was feeling no pain.

1947 C. Morley Ironing Board (1950) 116 At the table with three men who were feeling no pain.

1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular iii. 94 A vast quantity of vodka was drunk, and twice I saw senior Russian officers being carried out of the room evidently feeling no pain.

2000 J. P. Bolnick & T. S. Living at Edge of World 131 By then I was feeling no pain. I was dozing off at Mansky's desk when Sergeant Johnson came in.

P14. to feel in one's bones: see bone n.¹ Phrases 1b(c). to feel someone's collar: see collar n. 8a. to feel the earth move: see earth n.¹ Phrases 10. to feel the pinch: see pinch n. 7b.

单词	to feel like
释义	> as lemmas to feel like Phrases P1. to feel (out) one's way and variants: to find one's way by groping or treading carefully; (figurative) to proceed cautiously or tentatively. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > try experiments or make experiment [verb (intransitive)] > proceed tentatively to feel (out) one's waya1450 to grope one's way1862 the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (intransitive)] > grope about feela1382 to fathom aboutc1400 to feel (out) one's waya1450 grabble1579 pouter1812 the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > be cautious or take care [verb (intransitive)] > proceed with caution to make it wisec1405 to feel (out) one's waya1450 to beat the bush1526 to beat about the bush1572 callc1650 to call canny1814 go-easy1860 to plough around1888 pussyfoot1902 to play it by ear1922 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > effect forward movement in specific way > tentatively or by feeling to grope one's way1574 to feel (out) one's way1638 to fumble one's way1801 a1450 ( Libel Eng. Policy (Laud) in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 165 He [sc. kynge Edwarde] felde the weyes to reule well the see. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos iii. sig. H.iij A post in hand he bare of mighty Pyne, and therwithall He felt his way, and led his sheepe. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §144. 108 While we have our eyes, we need not feele out our way. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Y/3 A blind Man that feels his Way with a stick. 1758 J. Lawson Lect. conc. Oratory xxiii. 436 We can proceed only by Conjecture; like one walking in dim Twilight, feeling out our Way, and chusing our Steps with much timorous Caution. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lxxxi. 43 We but feel our way to err. 1862 G. MacDonald David Elginbrod ii. xxviii An aging moon was feeling her path somewhere through the heavens. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiv. 217 Cæsar..feeling his way with his cavalry. 1910 Christian Reg. (Boston) 25 Aug. 911/1 He felt out his way alone to faith in a better God and a saner universe. 2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) ii. 12 I killed the lights, felt my way down the stairs and landings, [etc.]. P2. to feel as if, to feel as though: (with following clause) to have a subjective impression or experience likened to the specified situation or event. ΚΠ 1534 J. Fewterer tr. U. Pinder Myrrour Christes Passion ii. f. cxxvii^v When he was borne..she felte as if halfe her herte had bene borne and departed from her body. 1606 R. Chambers tr. P. Numan Miracles lately Wrought 210 He felt as if certain strings had been broken in his eyes. 1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding ⁋80 These suggestions..did so over-weigh my heart..that I felt as if there were nothing else but these from morning to night within me. 1742 D. Brainerd Diary 4 Nov. in Acct. Life D. Brainerd (1765) 49 The Lord will not allow me to feel as though I were fully supplied and satisfied. 1771 E. Griffith tr. ‘P. Viaud’ Shipwreck 58 While we were asunder, we felt as if a limb was wanting. 1802 J. Baillie Second Marriage i. i, in Plays II. 366 When I look upon her poor children playing about, I feel as tho' they were my own flesh and blood. 1816 S. Gridley Diss. Importance & Associability Human Stomach 4 They experienced this distressing sensation, and felt as though the stomach was rolling over. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate vi I must go with you. I feel as if I could not bear to stay behind! 1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) ix. xi. 269 The jargon of that column made me feel as though I had never learned any English at all. 2011 New Yorker 18 Apr. 126/3 This is the kind of show that makes us feel as if we had a seat at the dining-room table. P3. to feel one's feet (also legs, wings): to be conscious of one's abilities; to be at ease or comfortable in oneself; (more generally) to be firmly established or settled in a particular environment or situation. Occasionally also: (of a child or young animal) to be able to stand or walk. Cf. to find one's feet at find v. Phrases 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > be able to [verb (intransitive)] > be conscious of or develop one's powers to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)1579 to find one's feet1977 the mind > emotion > calmness > compose or make calm [verb (transitive)] > be calm or composed to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)1579 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > feel or be confident [verb (intransitive)] wit1297 to know one's own mind1658 to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)1889 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. So flew Virgile, as not yet well feeling his wings. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia viii. 427 Give me leave to come leisurely to London, that in that time I may feel my Legs, and try how agreeable the natural Sweets of England by degrees may be. a1776 J. Griffith Jrnl. Life, Trav., & Labours in Work of Ministry (1779) 28 They..gave me full opportunity to make proof of my ministry, and to feel my feet therein. 1860 Punch 2 June 220/2 That little tiny tottering thing [sc. a baby] just learning to feel its legs. 1881 Daily Tel. 27 Dec. It was not until the last act that he ‘felt his legs’. 1889 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 217 Trees put in now cannot be expected to succeed as well as those that are already beginning to ‘feel their feet’. 1912 Ld. Redesdale Let. 10 May in E. Gosse Life A. C. Swinburne (1917) (App. I) 320 It was at Eton that he began to feel his wings. 1932 C. Clark Shakespeare & National Char. xxii. 274 Englishmen..were beginning to feel their feet in the new paths of exploration and discovery. 2007 M. J. Staples Price of Freedom i. 13 Lots of women are beginning to feel their feet these days, and I'm one of them. P4. Nautical. to feel her (also the) helm: (of a ship) to respond to movement of the helm. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > be influenced or affected by to feel her helm1591 1591 W. Raleigh Rep. Fight Iles of Açores sig. B2 The shippe could neither make way nor feele the helme. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 5 Many times the ships will feele no helme. 1749 E. Turrell Life B. Colman iii. 13 They called to them not to stir for their Lives, lest the Vessel upon such a Motion within should not feel her Helm. 1838 J. F. Cooper Homeward Bound I. xi. 163 The ship's head was to the south-southwest, her drift considerable, and her way of course barely sufficient to cause her to feel her helm. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Feel the helm, To have good steerage way, carrying taut weather-helm, which gives command of steerage. Also said of a ship when she has gained headway after standing still and begins to obey the helm. 1920 Federal Reporter 261 621 The collision came so soon that the witnesses for the schooner all testify that the schooner did not have time to feel her helm. 1970 Times 9 Jan. 4/2 The Moyle was just feeling her helm when there was a bump aft, and heavy vibration. P5. to make oneself (also one's presence) felt: to have a significant effect or influence, esp. indirectly. ΚΠ 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. ii. i. 119 The thoughts of a Diuinity..make themselves felt [Fr. se font sentir] with very piercing points. 1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. iv. 77 The whole money may still be in the state, and make itself felt by the encrease of prices. 1795 Confiscation Considered 44 The British Army has scarcely ever appeared..in any country, without making its presence felt. 1857 J. C. Stretton Lady of Glynne I. viii. 65 It took me a long time to learn, that to be duly valued, you must make yourself felt in some way. 1931 Washington Post Sept. 27 7/5 Soviet Russia is making herself felt in Egyptian markets. 2014 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Nov. (Sport section) 42 He is Celtic's most influential player and I know he will make his presence felt tomorrow night. P6. to feel like. a. To have a subjective impression or conviction of being. ΚΠ 1771 R. Cumberland West Indian iv. viii. 76 She has cooled the lad's courage, and wonders he feels like a coward. 1786 County Mag. Sept. 134/2 I felt like a man who is neither old nor insensible. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. i. 3 She felt like one Half-wakened from a midnight dream of blood. 1860 Widow Bedott Papers 108 Them special efforts is great things—ever since I come out, I've felt like a new critter. 1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill viii. 253 It made him feel like a social cull or an outcast, or something. 2012 J. Thayil Narcopolis i. iii. 38 I felt like an interloper from the future. b. colloquial (originally U.S.). With gerund, verbal noun, or noun phrase: to wish to do or have something; to have an inclination for. Cf. like adj. 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb] willeOE listc1200 to be of (also in) (a) minda1325 to will well that1340 likea1375 to find in one's hearta1393 to have a minda1400 pleasec1450 set1470 to have a mind1530 care1560 fadge1592 please1611 choose1622 offer1639 to feel like1808 1808 N. Bisbee Hist. Falcos iii. ii. 85 He will not feel much like going to old Recrementa's to-night, to have a frolic there. 1865 U. S. Grant in Cent. Mag. (1889) Nov. 142/2 I now feel like ending the matter..before we go back. 1887 E. H. D'Avigdor Loose Rein 165 He did not feel like lunch. 1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax viii. 82 I'll go straight home. I don't feel exactly like a street-corner meeting. 1970 W. J. Burley To kill Cat ii. 45 They had a drink together, then Helen said that she felt like bed. 2011 Time Out N.Y. 21 Apr. 16/2 If you feel like sampling some of the sweets, try the signature Papa Payard. P7. to feel to: to be inclined to do something (chiefly U.S.); (also) to imagine or have the impression of doing something. ΚΠ 1804 J. Southcott True Explan. Bible: Pt. 1st iii. 241 When she thinks of the beginning of his conduct, love and anger wounds her breast; she feels to pity him, and feels to be sorry for him. 1836 Going to Service xii. 141 People would take liberties with her, and I should feel to have to take care of her. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) (at cited word) To feel to do a thing is an expression commonly used by some clergymen, for to feel inclined, to be disposed to do it. 1866 London Society Oct. 315/2 When he wants one [sc. a cigar], he takes it; when he does not feel to want one, he goes without it. 1891 A. Forbes in 19th Cent. Dec. 1018 In reading which one feels to hear the turmoil of the battle. 1943 G. G. Coulton Fourscore Years 323 He would write in the light of what he now feels to know. 1948 Z. N. Hurston Seraph on Suwanee xv. 139 She could creep out there at times unbeknowings to Jim and handle them when she felt to. 1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) ii. 48 Kutunda..felt to occupy the only undistorted quadrant of the car. 2005 J. M. Chernoff Exchange is not Robbery v. 181 And one other day, I was feeling to do something like bluffing. P8. to feel (quite) oneself, to feel (quite) like oneself, and variants: to seem to oneself to be in one's usual state of health or frame of mind. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > be in state of health [verb (intransitive)] > be in usual health to live and lookc1390 to be myselfa1675 to feel (quite) oneself1812 to look oneself1822 to feel (quite) like oneself1838 to feel (like) myself1886 1812 J. Galt Maddalen iii. viii, in Tragedies 53 I now begin to feel myself again. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xliii. 141 I don't feel like myself when you lay that withered old claw on my shoulder, so take it away. 1865 Mrs. H. Wood Mildred Arkell I. ix I don't feel myself. 1890 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 27 Nov. 515/1 For some two weeks..he had not felt quite like himself, but he had had absolutely no cough. 1913 H. S. Harrison V. V.'s Eyes xxviii. 404 Cally had to assure him half a dozen times in as many blocks that she felt quite herself again. 1950 A. White Lost Traveller vi. i. 259 Will you let him come and talk to you when you're feeling a little more yourself? 2011 S. Busbee Rapture becomes Her iv. 61 His lordship is not feeling himself—we think it was something he ate. 2014 D. Macomber Love Lett. (2016) 113 Ellie didn't feel like herself in the morning until she had a cup of coffee. P9. colloquial. to feel up to: to consider oneself capable of; to have the strength or energy for. Cf. up adv.² 19a(a). ΚΠ 1829 New Monthly Mag. 26 233 On mornings when I did not feel up to conclusions with any thing very formidable. 1841 F. Trollope Charles Chesterfield v. 47 ‘Do you feel up to a little écarté, Amelia?’ ‘I am fit for nothing else,’ replied the lady. 1884 Graphic 30 Aug. 231/1 I did not feel up to much fatigue. 1923 Boys' Life Oct. 59/1 If I didn't feel up to taking the responsibilities it would be better to drop the thing altogether. 2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty lxxix. 290 Two hours and several all-day breakfasts later, we were all feeling up to doing something with the day. P10. colloquial. to feel one's age: to become aware or be reminded that one is no longer young. ΚΠ 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. xx. 335 For the first time in my life I felt my age and my celibacy. 1868 Sunshine & Shade I. xiv. 225 We are getting very old, Mr. Rowe; these young people make us feel our age. 1937 Life Nov. 13/3 (advt.) When digestion slows down you feel your age. 1986 Washington Post 16 Nov. b6/1 I know what it is. It's all that young blood in Congress. You're feeling your age. 2014 Sc. Express (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Editorial section) 18 She is starting to feel her age when she looks at recent pictures of herself. P11. colloquial (originally U.S.). feel free to (do something): used as an invitation or for reassurance to tell someone that he or she has the speaker's permission to perform a particular action; ‘don't hesitate’ (to do the thing specified). Also elliptically as feel free: ‘go ahead’, ‘please do’. ΚΠ 1897 Midland Monthly Mag. Oct. 335/1 ‘Please feel free to tell us just what you think about this..problem.’ Mr. Fargo..whispered, ‘Go ahead, Maud—-say what you like.’ 1922 Northwestern Druggist May 34/1 What do you do? Feel free to write us about it. 1948 Univ. Mich. School Educ. Bull. Dec. 35 Feel free to change your plans for using the consultant after he has arrived. 1989 G. E. Klyve & C. G. Oakley Legend of Perseus iii. 86 ‘You don't mind do you?’ said the pirate... ‘Oh no. Not at all. By all means. Feel free.’ 2009 E. Thom Tin-kin 33 Come and ask us if you're needing anything. Feel free. P12. slang. to feel the draught: to be seriously troubled or inconvenienced; to feel insecure, esp. financially. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] tholec897 pinea1225 steada1300 endure1340 to well in woea1350 labourc1450 concernc1592 to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1647 to have the wind in one's face1649 to be on (also at) the receiving end1909 to feel the draught1925 to have (one's) ass in a sling1960 to be in lumber1965 the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] to have needOE needa1300 to have mistera1400 to be low in the world1521 lack1523 pinch1549 to be beforehand (also behindhand) in (or with) the world1615 to feel the pinch1861 to feel the draught1925 1925 Westm. Gaz. 27 Apr. When the wind changed it might be the Conservative Party which would be feeling the draught. 1941 N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys vii. 103 ‘Did he go bust?’..‘I don't think so, Curtis. Must have felt the draught a bit.’ 1970 Financial Times 13 Apr. 13/3 If..the bigger firms in the private sector felt the draught and turned their attention to smaller orders, the lesser firms could suffer badly. 2013 N. Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 Aug. 33 Smaller businesses..must be feeling the draught as customers—already hit by rising prices from here to eternity—simply stay away. P13. slang (originally U.S.). to feel no pain: to be insensibly drunk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > be drunk > be insensibly drunk begonec1370 to feel no pain1929 1929 San Antonio (Texas) Express 20 Oct. 6 d/3 By dinner time the Judge was feeling no pain. 1947 C. Morley Ironing Board (1950) 116 At the table with three men who were feeling no pain. 1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular iii. 94 A vast quantity of vodka was drunk, and twice I saw senior Russian officers being carried out of the room evidently feeling no pain. 2000 J. P. Bolnick & T. S. Living at Edge of World 131 By then I was feeling no pain. I was dozing off at Mansky's desk when Sergeant Johnson came in. P14. to feel in one's bones: see bone n.¹ Phrases 1b(c). to feel someone's collar: see collar n. 8a. to feel the earth move: see earth n.¹ Phrases 10. to feel the pinch: see pinch n. 7b. extracted from feelv. < as lemmas
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