单词 | to fall to dirt |
释义 | > as lemmasto fall to dirt ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > collapse or come to nothing forworthc1000 folda1250 quailc1450 fruster?a1513 to come to nothing1523 to give out?1523 to fall to the ground?1526 quealc1530 to come to, end in, vanish into, smoke1604 intercide1637 to fall to dirt1670 to go off1740 to fall through1770 to fall apart1833 collapse1838 to run into the sand (also, now less commonly, sands)1872 to blow up1934 to blow out1939 1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 181 To the which we will in no wise agree, but wil rather laye all in the durt. 1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 29 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) Here Saladin was handsomely beat to dirt. 1658 J. Bramhall Consecration Protestant Bishops Justified vii. 148 Mr. Mason squeesed the poore Fable to durt. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 19 Feb. (1974) VIII. 72 Our discourse of peace is all in the dirt. 1670 A. Marvell Let. 21 Mar. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 314 We heard them pro Formâ, but all falls to Dirt. < as lemmas |
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