单词 | to have beforehand |
释义 | > as lemmasto have (also get) beforehand ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)] able to tine or win1340 to have (also get) beforehand1526 to keep (also hold, etc.) one's head above water1608 to pay one's way1786 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. RRiii He wyll..labour dilygently, to bring hym selfe beforehande agayne, and to recouer his losse. 1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth iii. f. 9v [They] regard not to lay vp any thing, or to haue it before hand. a1645 D. Featley in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus (1651) 484 He brought the Colledge much before hand, which before..was very much impoverished. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 450. ⁋3 Having little or nothing before~hand, and living from Hand to Mouth. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 45 I now began to think of getting a little Money beforehand. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xi. 121 ‘And then,’ said Mr. Micawber,..‘I shall, please Heaven, begin to be beforehand with the world,..if—in short, if anything turns up.’ < as lemmas |
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