单词 | to do down |
释义 | > as lemmasto do down to do down ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > take down to do downc1175 to take downa1400 reach1483 OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) ii. 238 Eft do hyne [sc. æppel] adune [?a1200 Harl. 6258B ætdun] & onlut.] c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11357 Ȝiff þatt tu godess sune arrt..Cumm skaþelæs till eorþe. Do þe nu þurrh þe sellfenn dun. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxviii. 19 Þe habyte done doun þat sche toke. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xv. 36 Se we, if Hely come for to do hym down. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 19167 Euer wiþ conquest ȝe do vs doun. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 90 To wend with Sir Dunkan, & do Dufnald doune. ?a1425 Constit. Masonry (Royal 17 A.i) l. 603 in J. O. Halliwell Early Hist. Freemasonry in Eng. (1844) 34 Furst thou most do down thy hode. 1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 111 And do their wrathful weapons down. 2. transitive. colloquial. To overcome, get the better of, bring to grief; to cheat, swindle; to disparage, belittle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] overcomeeOE forecomec1000 overwieldlOE masterc1225 overmaistrie1340 overmatcha1375 overpassa1382 surmount1390 to have the fairer (of)c1400 maistriec1400 overmasterc1425 winc1440 overc1485 bestride1526 rixlec1540 overreach1555 control1567 overmate1567 govern1593 to give (a person) the lurch1598 get1600 to gain cope of1614 top1633 to fetch overa1640 down1641 to have the whip hand (of)1680 carberry1692 to cut down1713 to be more than a match for1762 outflank1773 outmaster1799 outgeneral1831 weather1834 best1839 fore-reach1845 to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849 scoop1850 euchrec1866 bemaster1871 negotiate1888 to do down1900 to get (someone) wetc1926 lick1946 1900 Cassell's Mag. 20 510/1 If he gets a chance of doing us down, do us down he will. 1911 H. Walpole Mr. Perrin & Mr. Traill viii. 154 He saw nothing but a spiteful and malignant world trying, as he phrased it, to ‘do him down’. 1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 257 Poor Fanny! She was such a lady, and so straight and magnificent. And yet everything seemed to do her down. 1923 Daily Mail 12 Mar. 6 Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen..said they had been done down by what had been rightly called an act of treachery. 1936 L. A. G. Strong Last Enemy 13 To get your rights from Fosdyke was to cheat him, since he had never meant you to have them... It was a real injury to stop him from doing you down. 1958 Economist 29 Nov. 784/1 School for them is the great game of doing down, or being done down by, the teacher. 1980 Daily Tel. 29 May 14/3 Yet no biographer quite succeeded in doing down the unsullied image of the snow-white Quakeress. 1992 J. Cartwright Rise & Fall of Little Voice ii. 48 Don't do yoursen down Ray. You're Elvis in my eyes. 2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 i. 24 I would carry grudges, plot revenge.., if I could just notice or recall when people had done me down. < as lemmas |
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