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单词 to freeze down
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to freeze down
b. Originally U.S. and Australian. to freeze (on) to: to hold on to (a person or thing); to keep tight hold of; also, to become attached to (a person), ‘take to’. Cf. to stick to ——. Also, to freeze down.
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1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. iii. 40 Do as I do, younker..freeze down solid to it.
1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. i. 22 I friz right down where I wuz, merried the Widder Shennon.
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. vii. 117 No, sir; I am of the children of Israel; and I freeze to that.
1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1885) 193 ‘Freezing’ to him, as the Americans call it—was a tiny fellow of some eight years.
1883 P. Robinson Sinners & Saints 114 The better the Mormon, the harder he freezes to his religion.
1888 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch xvii He's a lawyer and he might not freeze on to you.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 189 Here, Jem!..freeze on to this brute.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 23 June 7/1 Londoners, when they get hold of a good thing, like to ‘freeze on to’ it.
1935 P. G. Wodehouse Blandings Castle i. 25 You won't mind if I freeze on to the two-seater for the nonce?
1960 M. Stewart My Brother Michael xv. 188 We'll freeze on to those facts, and let the rest develop as it will.
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