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单词 to fly off
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to fly off
d. to fly off: literal to start away; ‘to revolt’ (Johnson); figurative to take another course; to break away (from an agreement or engagement).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > withdraw from an engagement or promise
starta1450
fang1522
recidivate1528
to draw back1572
flinch1578
to shrink collar1579
retract1616
to shrink out of the collar1636
renege1651
to fly off1667
to slip (the) collarc1677
to declare off1749
to cry off1775
to back out1807
to fight off1833
crawfish1848
welsh1871
to pull out1884
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 614 Strait they chang'd thir minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. View more context for this quotation
1713 J. Addison Cato iv. 54 The traytor Syphax..Flew off at once with his Numidian Horse.
1785 F. Burney Diary 16 Dec. (1842) II. 371 I was..ready to fly off if any one knocked at the street-door.
1816 Sporting Mag. 48 173 From this agreement he flew off.
1864 W. H. Ainsworth John Law II. iii. ii. 55 Were I to ask for time, [Nicomède] would inevitably fly off, and the affair would come to an end.
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to fly off
c. With various adverbs, about, back, off, out, up, etc. †to fly off: (of cannon) to be fired.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate artillery [verb (intransitive)] > be discharged
play1591
to fly off1650
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 1769 (MED) Þe fire flaghe out with þonder and raine.
c1430 Syr. Gener. (Roxb.) 5934 Of his sheld floy of a grete cantel.
c1460 Launfal 473 The erl of Chestere..smot hym the helm on hegh That the crest adoun flegh.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. D8v From their shields forth flyeth firie light.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. i. 112 My Chaffe And Corne shall flye asunder. View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Hist. Revol. Naples (1664) i. 117 The Vice-roy..caus'd all the ordnance to flie off.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xvi. 55 The dog struck her over the head with his hatchet till her brains flew out.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 15 They..cannot agree together, but fly back from each other.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 177 The Tool will..fly off where a Knot..comes to the Tool.
1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 41 Which..by spouting out, will make the Water fly about.
1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 107 Lowering her Main-Yard: the Tack flew up.
1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 5 Aug. 1/1 The Earth..without flying off in a Tangent Line, constantly rolls about the Sun.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 349 The ice shivering with the violence of the strain..the anchor flew out.
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