英语词汇“to fall about a person's ears”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

f. to fall about a person's ears.

(a) To collapse or come down on or around a person. Frequently figurative or in figurative contexts. Cf. about a person's ears at ear n.¹ Phrases 1a.Also with down; cf. to fall down 1a at Phrasal verbs 1.

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1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. G.vii For wheles and all, faules downe about their eares From rotten frames.

1649 G. Winstanley New Law Righteousnes 105 His house and Kingdon wil fall about his ears.

1726 J. T. Desaguliers York-Buildings Dragons (ed. 2) 14 And sit quietly till your Houses fall about your Ears?

1863 Gardener's Monthly Jan. 11/1 The house..—the bricks of which your experienced correspondents form—will fall about my ears, and I shall be annihilated.

1876 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. May 431 The Associate Presbytery were building a Babel that would soon fall down about their ears.

1909 Sketch 30 June 406/2 The smelting-house would fall about his ears as surely as though a five-inch shell had struck it.

2002 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 22 Feb. 50 My girlfriend is furious with me and my whole life is falling about my ears again.

†(b) To assail a person suddenly or vigorously; esp. to attack someone with punches, kicks, etc. Obsolete.

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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike or deliver blows [verb (intransitive)] > specific on a person

to be upon (also on) a person's jack1588

to fall about a person's ears1615

to pink (a person's) jacket (also doublet)1673

1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 39 Lest that those spend-thrifts fall about his eares, When they shall see him.

1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells viii. 551 He not able to endure it, leapt from the Herse, and fell about their eares with such rage and fury, that hee ceased not buffetting with them, till quite wearied.

1661 S. Pepys Diary 23 Mar. (1970) II. 58 His master fell about his eares and beat him.

1726 tr. D. Hurtado de Mendoza Life & Adventures Lazarillo de Tormes (ed. 2) ii. xi. 184 Great and small fell about my Ears; some kick't, others cuff't.

?1755 Jack Smart's Merry Jester (ed. 2) 71 Giving the Miller some harsh Words, he fell about his Ears, and beat him soundly.

单词	to fall about a person's ears
释义	> as lemmas to fall about a person's ears f. to fall about a person's ears. (a) To collapse or come down on or around a person. Frequently figurative or in figurative contexts. Cf. about a person's ears at ear n.¹ Phrases 1a.Also with down; cf. to fall down 1a at Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. G.vii For wheles and all, faules downe about their eares From rotten frames. 1649 G. Winstanley New Law Righteousnes 105 His house and Kingdon wil fall about his ears. 1726 J. T. Desaguliers York-Buildings Dragons (ed. 2) 14 And sit quietly till your Houses fall about your Ears? 1863 Gardener's Monthly Jan. 11/1 The house..—the bricks of which your experienced correspondents form—will fall about my ears, and I shall be annihilated. 1876 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. May 431 The Associate Presbytery were building a Babel that would soon fall down about their ears. 1909 Sketch 30 June 406/2 The smelting-house would fall about his ears as surely as though a five-inch shell had struck it. 2002 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 22 Feb. 50 My girlfriend is furious with me and my whole life is falling about my ears again. †(b) To assail a person suddenly or vigorously; esp. to attack someone with punches, kicks, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > strike or deliver blows [verb (intransitive)] > specific on a person to be upon (also on) a person's jack1588 to fall about a person's ears1615 to pink (a person's) jacket (also doublet)1673 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 39 Lest that those spend-thrifts fall about his eares, When they shall see him. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells viii. 551 He not able to endure it, leapt from the Herse, and fell about their eares with such rage and fury, that hee ceased not buffetting with them, till quite wearied. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 23 Mar. (1970) II. 58 His master fell about his eares and beat him. 1726 tr. D. Hurtado de Mendoza Life & Adventures Lazarillo de Tormes (ed. 2) ii. xi. 184 Great and small fell about my Ears; some kick't, others cuff't. ?1755 Jack Smart's Merry Jester (ed. 2) 71 Giving the Miller some harsh Words, he fell about his Ears, and beat him soundly. extracted from fallv. < as lemmas
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