英语词汇“to come it”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. slang or colloquial. to come it.

(a) †(a) cant: to lend something (obsolete). (b) To present or produce something; to divulge information, a secret, etc. Later also: (Criminals' slang) to inform on someone; to give incriminating evidence against someone. Now rare.

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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Has he come it? has he lent it you?

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Has he come it? has he lent it?

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 163 Come it, to divulge a secret..they say of a thief who has turned evidence against his accomplices, that he is coming all he knows, or that he comes it as strong as a horse.

1823 P. Egan Boxiana I. 481 He's come it to old Joey Ward, he can fight a good hour.

1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 162/1 To come it, to inform.

1899 J. Bradshaw Quirindi Bank Robbery 16 He was promised a very light sentence if he would come it on his mate.

1900 Sporting Times 14 Apr. 2/1 Although I unearth him he will not ‘come it’ about the gate, nor, indeed, upon the much-more-useful subject of the best animile [sic] in his stable.

1902 Daily Chron. 6 Mar. 8/2 He subpœnaed Roseblade as a witness for him at his trial, but, said Williams, dejectedly, ‘he mounted and come it on me’. Mr. P.: What do you mean? Williams: He gave evidence against me.

1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xxvii. 270 He would have to have an understanding with the bogy before he came it.

(b) To act in a specified or implied manner; to act or behave energetically, boldly, boastfully, aggressively, etc. Frequently with adverb or prepositional phrase as complement. Cf. to come it strong at strong adv. Phrases 2a.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)]

twig1573

to go at ——1675

to go it1794

to come it1796

to lay it on thick1806

to blaze away1826

bushwhack1837

steam1842

split1844

rustle1882

to work like a demon1884

yank1888

go-at-it1904

to go somea1911

to put a jerk in it1919

to go (also do) one's (also a) dinger1923

to work (etc.) one's ass off1924

to go to town1933

to gie (or give) it laldy1974

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase]

to go beyond the moon?c1430

to cast beyond the moon1559

to lay on load?1562

to lay it on with a trowela1616

all (his) geese are swans1621

to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667

to lay it on thick1740

to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778

to come it1796

to make a thing about (also of)1813

to draw with the long-bow1823

to pitch it strong1823

to overegg the pudding1845

to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865

to god it1870

to strong it1964

to stretch it (or things)1965

1796 Sporting Mag. Aug. 252/2 Gemmen, if you do not come it rumly, I shall be dish'd.

1821 P. Egan Life in London 287 Mr. Mace..was ‘cut out’ for company; and he could ‘come it well’ upon all points.

1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 56 ‘How well he comes it!’ How well he lies.

1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 546 Can't you come it melancholy?

1830 P. Egan Finish to Adventures Tom, Jerry, & Logic 153 The Dukes and Lords do stare To view Saucy Nell ‘come it’ with so genteel an air.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiii. 219 I can come it pretty well—nobody better perhaps in my own line.

1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 126 Also, in pugilistic phraseology, to come it means to show fear; and in this respect, as well as in that of giving information, the expression ‘come it’ is best known to the lower and most dangerous classes.

1915 Sat. Evening Post 9 Jan. 17/2 There was a time when we might both have been won to a sane and reasonable liberalism, but the present so-called government was coming it a bit too thick for us.

1920 J. Galsworthy Foundations iii. If all you wealfy nobs wiv kepitel 'ad come it kind from the start after the war yer'd never a' been 'earing' the Marseillaisy naow.

1975 D. Clement & I. La Frenais Porridge: Scripts (2002) 2nd Ser. Episode 3. 182/1 It doesn't pay to come it with me, Fletcher. You remember me.

1982 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 2nd Ser. Episode 3. 91 100 notes? You're coming it a bit ain't yer Boycie?

1997 J. Wilson Lottie Project (1998) 47 ‘What about a strawberry gâteau?’ ‘I think that's coming it a bit, old girl. Beans, plums and ice cream, that'll do.’

(c) to come it over (also with) a person: to act or behave in a specified or implied manner towards someone; to deceive, get the better of, or act in a superior or domineering manner towards someone. Cf. to come the —— (with or over a person) at Phrases 2b, to come over —— 3 at Phrasal verbs 2.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > create or maintain appearance [phrase] > overcome by acting

to come it over a person1827

1827 Mil. Sketch Bk. I. 30 Tickerly the guards: they try to come it over us venhever they have a tunity; but I'll let them know vhat's vhat.

1841 Dramatic Mirror 11 Dec. 143/2 I tell you what, my youth, you are too green a customer to come it over us with quite so shallow a story!

1867 A. Trollope Claverings II. i. 4 Miss Burton had been received..openly as Harry's future wife, and, ‘by Jove, you know, he can't be coming it with Julia after that, you know.’

1890 F. C. Philips & C. J. Wills Sybil Ross xviii. 126 It's no use a-trying to come it with me.

1910 S. M. Swales Tweed xxiii. 310 Don't come it, ye confounded old soap-stick. Ye can't come it over me with that lather, or I'm a greater fool'n I think I be.

1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle i. 1 You'll be a blighted brass-hat, coming it heavy over the hard-working regimental officer.

1939 H. G. Wells Holy Terror iii. i. 207 The world's had this apostolic succession of oily old humbugs..trying to come it over people.

1944 L. A. G. Strong Director xiii. 112 You shouldn't let these four-flushers come it over you.

2004 J. Colgan Do you remember First Time? xi. 224 ‘Shut up shut up shut up’. ‘Well, stop coming it with me, fat tits’.

单词	to come it
释义	> as lemmas to come it 24. transitive. colloquial and regional. Usually in the infinitive. Of a person: to achieve, attain, or reach; to do, succeed in doing. Chiefly in to come it; cf. Phrases 2a. Now rare. ΚΠ 1822 Sporting Mag. July 204/1 I wish this fellow to say how he got hold o' my cheque for three hundred—..let him come that, and I shall be satisfied. 1840 Hard Cider Press (U.S.) 10 Oct. 2/1 Kent has come it... Kent has Kracked the Krown of King Martin in Maine. 1849 C. Lanman Lett. Alleghany Mts. xi. 89 The fellers laughed at me and said I couldn't come it. 1863 Novelette No. 92 36/1 Shoot me if I believe I could get along with a madman or a mad-woman; I couldn't quite come that, stranger, for you see I'm a little afeared of human natur run wild in that way. 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases (at cited word) ‘I can't quite come that’ (= that is beyond me). 1949 A. B. Guthrie Way West xx. 213 He had given the fort the go-by, taking a short cut, hard as it was... ‘I'm thinkin' we can come it, but it's hard and chancey.’ 1972 H. Cooper N. Carolina Mountain Folklore xxi. 93 I can't come it—I can't eat more. extracted from comev. to come it a. slang or colloquial. to come it. (a) †(a) cant: to lend something (obsolete). (b) To present or produce something; to divulge information, a secret, etc. Later also: (Criminals' slang) to inform on someone; to give incriminating evidence against someone. Now rare. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Has he come it? has he lent it you? 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Has he come it? has he lent it? 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 163 Come it, to divulge a secret..they say of a thief who has turned evidence against his accomplices, that he is coming all he knows, or that he comes it as strong as a horse. 1823 P. Egan Boxiana I. 481 He's come it to old Joey Ward, he can fight a good hour. 1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 162/1 To come it, to inform. 1899 J. Bradshaw Quirindi Bank Robbery 16 He was promised a very light sentence if he would come it on his mate. 1900 Sporting Times 14 Apr. 2/1 Although I unearth him he will not ‘come it’ about the gate, nor, indeed, upon the much-more-useful subject of the best animile [sic] in his stable. 1902 Daily Chron. 6 Mar. 8/2 He subpœnaed Roseblade as a witness for him at his trial, but, said Williams, dejectedly, ‘he mounted and come it on me’. Mr. P.: What do you mean? Williams: He gave evidence against me. 1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xxvii. 270 He would have to have an understanding with the bogy before he came it. (b) To act in a specified or implied manner; to act or behave energetically, boldly, boastfully, aggressively, etc. Frequently with adverb or prepositional phrase as complement. Cf. to come it strong at strong adv. Phrases 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] twig1573 to go at ——1675 to go it1794 to come it1796 to lay it on thick1806 to blaze away1826 bushwhack1837 steam1842 split1844 rustle1882 to work like a demon1884 yank1888 go-at-it1904 to go somea1911 to put a jerk in it1919 to go (also do) one's (also a) dinger1923 to work (etc.) one's ass off1924 to go to town1933 to gie (or give) it laldy1974 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase] to go beyond the moon?c1430 to cast beyond the moon1559 to lay on load?1562 to lay it on with a trowela1616 all (his) geese are swans1621 to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667 to lay it on thick1740 to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778 to come it1796 to make a thing about (also of)1813 to draw with the long-bow1823 to pitch it strong1823 to overegg the pudding1845 to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865 to god it1870 to strong it1964 to stretch it (or things)1965 1796 Sporting Mag. Aug. 252/2 Gemmen, if you do not come it rumly, I shall be dish'd. 1821 P. Egan Life in London 287 Mr. Mace..was ‘cut out’ for company; and he could ‘come it well’ upon all points. 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 56 ‘How well he comes it!’ How well he lies. 1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 546 Can't you come it melancholy? 1830 P. Egan Finish to Adventures Tom, Jerry, & Logic 153 The Dukes and Lords do stare To view Saucy Nell ‘come it’ with so genteel an air. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiii. 219 I can come it pretty well—nobody better perhaps in my own line. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 126 Also, in pugilistic phraseology, to come it means to show fear; and in this respect, as well as in that of giving information, the expression ‘come it’ is best known to the lower and most dangerous classes. 1915 Sat. Evening Post 9 Jan. 17/2 There was a time when we might both have been won to a sane and reasonable liberalism, but the present so-called government was coming it a bit too thick for us. 1920 J. Galsworthy Foundations iii. If all you wealfy nobs wiv kepitel 'ad come it kind from the start after the war yer'd never a' been 'earing' the Marseillaisy naow. 1975 D. Clement & I. La Frenais Porridge: Scripts (2002) 2nd Ser. Episode 3. 182/1 It doesn't pay to come it with me, Fletcher. You remember me. 1982 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 2nd Ser. Episode 3. 91 100 notes? You're coming it a bit ain't yer Boycie? 1997 J. Wilson Lottie Project (1998) 47 ‘What about a strawberry gâteau?’ ‘I think that's coming it a bit, old girl. Beans, plums and ice cream, that'll do.’ (c) to come it over (also with) a person: to act or behave in a specified or implied manner towards someone; to deceive, get the better of, or act in a superior or domineering manner towards someone. Cf. to come the —— (with or over a person) at Phrases 2b, to come over —— 3 at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > create or maintain appearance [phrase] > overcome by acting to come it over a person1827 1827 Mil. Sketch Bk. I. 30 Tickerly the guards: they try to come it over us venhever they have a tunity; but I'll let them know vhat's vhat. 1841 Dramatic Mirror 11 Dec. 143/2 I tell you what, my youth, you are too green a customer to come it over us with quite so shallow a story! 1867 A. Trollope Claverings II. i. 4 Miss Burton had been received..openly as Harry's future wife, and, ‘by Jove, you know, he can't be coming it with Julia after that, you know.’ 1890 F. C. Philips & C. J. Wills Sybil Ross xviii. 126 It's no use a-trying to come it with me. 1910 S. M. Swales Tweed xxiii. 310 Don't come it, ye confounded old soap-stick. Ye can't come it over me with that lather, or I'm a greater fool'n I think I be. 1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle i. 1 You'll be a blighted brass-hat, coming it heavy over the hard-working regimental officer. 1939 H. G. Wells Holy Terror iii. i. 207 The world's had this apostolic succession of oily old humbugs..trying to come it over people. 1944 L. A. G. Strong Director xiii. 112 You shouldn't let these four-flushers come it over you. 2004 J. Colgan Do you remember First Time? xi. 224 ‘Shut up shut up shut up’. ‘Well, stop coming it with me, fat tits’. extracted from comev. < as lemmas
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