单词 | to dip one's fingers in |
释义 | > as lemmasto dip one's fingers in (a matter) (b) to dip one's fingers in (a matter) and variants: to have some (typically superficial or brief) involvement in or knowledge of (a matter); to interfere or meddle in (a matter); to ‘dabble’ in. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > intervene between [verb (transitive)] > interfere in or meddle with attame1430 intertrike1513 to dip one's fingers in (a matter)a1601 interfere1633 touch1647 to be (also go) at the ——1898 to screw with ——1973 to dick with ——1979 1572 G. Fenton tr. E. Pasquier Monophylo ii. f. 14v I laye him amongst the number of the happiest who..forbeareth..the practise of loue, and I will ymitate the other, who although he haue dipped his finger in that vnsauory broth [Fr. qui y aura mis vn bout de pié], yet, fearing to be altogither scalded, draweth backe.] a1601 W. Lambarde Archion (1635) 94 Whatsoever other Commissioners..will dip their owne fingers in the Suits. 1613 W. B. tr. S. Michaelis Admirable Hist. Penitent Woman 213 God, thou hast made reseruation of three things to thy selfe, and wouldest not that sinners should intermeddle or dip their fingers in them, to wit, thy glorie, iudgement and vengeance. 1699 S. Chandler et al. Abridgement Disc. 4 in Impartial Acct. Portsmouth Disputation Those that have but dip'd their fingers in the Iewish Writings know. 1703 R. Wake Priest's Complaint 46 They are thus dipping their Fingers in things Sacred, and that do not at all appertain to them. 1790 P. Thicknesse Man-midwifery Analyzed (new ed.) Ded. p. vi There are Book-midwifes, as well as Men-midwifes, who touch books now and then, which they had better never have dipped their fingers into. 1899 H. B. Marriott Watson Princess Xenia xviii. 270 Being a foreigner, and having no concern to put a finger in the business, he should be shot. 1937 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 6/3 Whether the White House dipped a finger into the business nobody seems to know. 1945 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 31 Aug. 7/6 This was the greatest number to file initial claims since the government put its finger into the unemployment pay problem back in 1938. < as lemmas |
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