单词 | to flee for it |
释义 | > as lemmasto flee for it a. To run away from or as from danger; to take flight; to try to escape or seek safety by flight. Also, to flee away, out, and to flee for it. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee fleec825 afleeeOE atrina1000 atfleec1000 to run awayOE to turn to or into flighta1225 to turn the ridgec1225 atrenc1275 atshakec1275 to give backa1300 flemec1300 startc1330 to take (on oneself) the flighta1500 to take the back upon oneselfa1500 fly1523 to take (also betake) (oneself) to one's legs1530 to flee one's way1535 to take to one's heels1548 flought?1567 fuge1573 to turn taila1586 to run off1628 to take flighta1639 refugea1641 to run for it1642 to take leg1740 to give (also take) leg-bail1751 bail1775 sherry1788 to pull foot1792 fugitate1830 to tail off (out)1830 to take to flight1840 to break (strike, etc.) for (the) tall timber1845 guy1879 to give leg (or legs)1883 rabbit1887 to do a guy1889 high-tail1908 to have it on one's toes1958 c825 [see α. forms]. Proverb.a1250 Owl & Nightingale 176 ‘Wel fiȝt that wel fliȝt’, seith the wise.13.. Prov. Hendyng ix, in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 111 ‘Wel fytht, that wel flyth’ Quoth Hendyng.c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) viii. 33 Ða hyrdas witodlice flugon. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2775 & swiðe monie þer fluwen [c1300 Otho floȝen] & ferden to Rome. c1325 Coer de L. 2303 Flowen was that fals coward. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2614 Sco was fain to fle a-wai. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 9213 Þe kyng fley out bi nyȝt. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxvii. 155 They shall make as they dide flee. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10077 The grekes flowen in fere & the feld leuyt. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Mortimer xx For they flewe, I feared them the lesse. 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 216 One that had in his forehead a bounch of flesh, fledde away a great pase. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 80. ⁋3 My Confusion at last was so great, that without speaking, or being spoken to, I fled for it. 1847 G. P. R. James John Marston Hall ix Some of them fled as fast as their legs would carry them. 1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (1886) I. 90 A hundred women will tell you that they are ready to flee with you. < as lemmas |
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