| 单词 | to go to hell across lots |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go to hell (also the devil) across lots (ii) to go to hell (also the devil) across lots: to go straight to hell. to send to hell across lots: to send straight to hell; to kill. Now rare.First recorded in reports of speeches by Brigham Young, second leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; now chiefly in reference or allusion to such usage. ΚΠ 1853 B. Young in Deseret News (Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 2 Apr. [I dreamed that] I..cut one of their throats from ear to ear, saying go to hell across lots. 1855 Goshen (Indiana) Democrat 23 May The fear..of being ‘sent to hell across lots’, as Brigham classically expresses it, deters them from such a course. 1873 J. Miller Life amongst Modocs viii. 120 Keep your distance, you Sydney duck,..or I will send you to hell across lots in a second. 1901 J. H. Wilkins Glimpse of Old Mexico 8 If there was a land on earth that seemed to be going to the devil across lots,..Mexico was certainly that one. 1942 W. Stegner Mormon Country 144 They were always offering to send their enemies to hell across lots. 2012 S. Dallas True Sisters 90 ‘They'll go to hell across lots,’ the Danite prophesied, and went to stand by himself, scowling at the Saints. < as lemmas |
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