单词 | to chance one's mit |
释义 | > as lemmasto chance one's mit c. colloquial phrase to chance one's arm: to perform an action in the face of probable failure; to take one's chance of doing something successfully. Similarly to chance one's mit. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [verb (intransitive)] > run a risk or take one's chance to take one's chancec1325 to take penancec1400 to throw at allc1400 to buy a pig (in Scotl. a cat) in a poke1546 to throw the helve after the hatchet1546 to set (up) one's rest1579 to give the adventure1607 to make a shaft or a bolt of ita1616 to run a fortune1627 to run for luck1799 to go the vole1816 chance1863 to chance one's arm1889 to take a chance or chances1902 gamble1919 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 236/1 Chance your arm (tailors), try, let it go, chance it. 1899 Daily News 13 Nov. 7/1 B. P. says ‘to chance your arm’ means to risk a court-martial which has the power to take all the pretty pretties off a man's sleeve. I first heard the phrase in 1886. 1919 War Slang in Athenæum 8 Aug. 728/1 ‘Chancing his mit’ means risking a great deal, or playing a losing hazard. 1926 Westm. Gaz. 7 Jan. If such people as this defendant can chance their arm in this way, amateur sport is not going to be kept pure. 1927 Daily Express 10 June 9/3 Joanna [Southcott] seems to have chanced her arm, so to speak, in her prophecy of the end of the world, which she fixes as due to happen on June 31 next. 1959 Economist 27 June 1152/2 Mr. Macmillan may have no more by-elections in this Parliament by which to judge when to chance his arm. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。