单词 | to have one's guts about one's ears |
释义 | > as lemmasto have one's guts about one's ears b. Phrases. †to have one's guts about one's ears (a hyperbolical threat); †(to grieve) to the guts: deeply, to the very soul; to have (a person's) guts for garters (a hyperbolical threat); to hate (a person's) guts: to dislike (a person) intensely; to sweat (also work) one's guts out: to work extremely hard. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] > hyperbolical threats to have (a person's) guts for gartersa1592 society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil workeOE swingc1000 to the boneOE labourc1390 toilc1400 drevyll?1518 drudge1548 droy1576 droil1591 to tug at the (an) oar1612 to stand to it1632 rudge1676 slave1707 to work like a beaver1741 to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828 to feague it away1829 to work like a nigger1836 delve1838 slave1852 leather1863 to sweat one's guts out1890 hunker1903 to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932 to eat (also work) like a horse1937 beaver1946 to work like a drover's dog1952 to get one's nose down (to)1962 a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iii. sig. Fv Ile make garters of thy guttes, Thou villaine. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. iii. sig. H4v Sir, I will garter my hose with your guttes. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 108 They said our guts should be about our ears if we did not vote it. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 140 It griev'd him to the Guts, that they..Should offer such inhumane wrong. 1714 J. Walker Attempt Acct. Sufferings Clergy Church of Eng. ii. 341/2 He hoped to have the Parson's Guts to Garter his Hose with. 1918 H. V. O'Brien Diary 8 July in Wine, Women & War (1926) 140 R— decided on different way, so did it all over again. Great boy, R—. Hate his guts! 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby i. 9 There were men at New Haven who had hated his guts. 1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner ii. 101 God knows, it's been an uphill job, but I've done my best. I've just sweated my guts out. 1932 N. Coward Words & Music in Play Parade (1939) II. 111 We have to work our guts out...We have to hop and bustle. 1933 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 698 I'll 'ave yer guts fer garters. 1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin ii. v One o' these dys I'll 'ave 'is guts fer garters. 1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 II. 31 You know perfectly well I hate Freda's guts. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ii. 35 It is brought home to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock vii. viii. 338 He hates her guts. 1945 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 22 May in Performing Flea (1953) 126 The entire personnel of the cast sweat their guts out..and then the studio discovers that it doesn't own the rights to the novel. 1959 Listener 24 Sept. 495/3 Those who (to use a colloquial phrase that does justice to feelings, especially in war time) ‘hated his guts’. 1967 Guardian 29 Dec. 6/3 Resentment in Service quarters is now focusing on Mr Healey... But those who are demanding his guts for garters are making a mistake. < as lemmas |
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