单词 | to come off bluely |
释义 | > as lemmasto come off bluely 2. Badly, without success. Only in to come off bluely and variants. Now archaic and rare.In quot. 1654 punning on sense 1; cf. blue n. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of persons miscarry1602 to come off bluely1654 to buy the rabbit1807 flunk1823 to go wrong1827 slip1890 to fall (also go) by the wayside1898 crack1918 to go down the tube(s)1963 1654 M. Stevenson Occasions Off-spring 32 Thus have I made thee faire and fowle; so truely Starch be it nere so white, comes of but blewly. 1658 G. Wharton Second Narr. Late Parl. (new ed.) 28 Yet [he]..came off blewly in the end. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xxxv He still came off but bluely by reason of the Care and Vigilance of the Chitterlings. 1774 Assoc. Delegates Colonies Versified 15 These Plunderers should come off so bluely. 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) i Bluely [badly], male. He came off but bluely, malè res successit. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros vii. 88 If thine own fortunes come off but bluely, care not a rush. Give me some wine, a full weeping goblet. < as lemmas |
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