| 单词 | to eat out of a person's hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat (also feed) out of a person's hand (also hands) d. to eat (also feed) out of a person's hand (also hands): to be completely submissive to a person, to be under another person's control. ΚΠ 1689 N. Lee Princess of Cleve ii. ii. 21 Turn me to the sharpest Shrow that ever Bit or Scratch'd, if I do not make her feed out of my hand like a tame Pidgeon, may I be condemn'd to lye with my Wife. 1735 J. Swift Let. to Middleton in Wks. IV. 193 I have seen the grossest Suppositions pass upon them; that the wild Irish were taken in Toyls; but that, in some Time, they would grow so tame, as to eat out of your Hands. 1894 Pall Mall Mag. 3 523/1 Claques..are almost as discreditable to managements as the keeping of tame critics, who eat food out of their hand. 1915 J. Conrad Victory ii. vii. 139 He's like that—sometimes that familiar you might think he would eat out of your hand, and at others he would snub you sharper than a devil. 1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago i. vii. 212 ‘Well, have they had their tails twisted yet? Are they keeping quiet now?’ ‘The shopkeepers, you mean?.. Feed out of your hand!’ 2005 Uncut June 122/3 If he played this material live now..he'd have all the young psychedelic folk-heads eating out of his hand. < as lemmas |
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