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单词 to have one's pennyworths out of
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to have one's pennyworths out of
P2. to have one's pennyworths out of and variants: to exact one's due from, esp. to take revenge on. Scottish after early 18th cent. Sc. National Dict. (1968) records this proverbial phrase as still in use in 1965.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > execute (vengeance) [verb (transitive)] > take vengeance on > be revenged upon
to be even witha1500
to have one's pennyworths out ofa1566
to be meet (also meets) with1584
to be with1597
to get even with1846
a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Eijv I wyll haue my penyworthes of thee.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xiii. 130 Leopoldus..meaning now to get his peny-worths out of him, for the affront done unto him in Palestine.
1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. vii. 69 ‘In the mean time Master Shopkeeper’ (said he) ‘I will have my pennyworths out of you’, and thereupon falling on him with his fists, [etc.].
1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 207 They take out their Penny-worths in Satyr, and Slander.
1821 W. Liddle Poems 161 He swore by a' that bides aboon That penny worths he wou'd hae soon.
1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin v. 50 Mr Squeeker..thrashed him within an inch o' his life... Havin' ta'en his pennyworths o' Jock [etc.].
1932 J. Saxby Trad. Lore 99 ‘I got me flesh pennie-wirts oot o' him,’..‘Flesh pennie-wirts’ is money earned with the blood, or exorbitant charges screwed out of toiling mortals.
1963 in Sc. National Dict. (1968) 88/2 He means to get his pennysworth out of you, i.e. to take advantage of you, get all he can out of you, ‘bleed you white’.]
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