| 单词 | to come to handy blows |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come to handy blows = hand blow n. Frequently in to come to handy blows. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the hand handstroke1488 hand blow?1569 cuff1570 handy blow1572 kerry-merry-buff1598 cuffing1610 handicuff1611 hander1829 1572 G. Kyttes Vnluckie Firmentie iv. sig. C.iiiv Then vaylyauntly her selfe she bent To fall to handye blowes. 1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. xii. 162 By whose meanes the matter came to handie-blowes. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 114 Belaboured him soundly with handy blowes. 1639 R. Ward Animadversions of Warre xiv. i. ccl An instrument called a Flaile, used..when the Enemy is at handy blowes. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 201 To come, pell-mell to handiblows. 1741 J. Ozell tr. P. de B. de Brantôme Spanish Rhodomontades 84 He did by no Means like Handy-blows, but only your Tongue-Battles. 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) i. at Blow To come to handy blows, Cominus pugnare. 1807 J. Ruickbie Wayside Cottager 190 Troth, Sirs, ye're but wanchancy foes, Whene'er it comes to handy blows. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 316 Nought of handy blows I know. 1959 G. Heyer Unknown Ajax x. 137 I'd look champion, coming to handyblows with a man two or three stone lighter than I am! 2008 B. Donagan War in Eng., 1642–9 v. 75 Many of the early skirmishes in which Englishmen accustomed themselves to killing each other were conducted with makeshift weapons and ‘handy blows’. < as lemmas |
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