| 单词 | to lead a person a life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lead a person a life 7. to lead (a person) a dance: transferred and figurative, to put to the trouble of hurrying from place to place; hence, to compel to go through a course of irksome action. to lead (a person) a chase: lit. to give (a pursuer) trouble by one's speed or circuitous course; also figurative. Also (by association with sense 12) to lead a person a life. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > make (one) go through a difficult action to lead (a person) a dancea1545 to lead (a person) the measures1594 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, dupe [phrase] to put an ape in a person's hoodc1330 to glaze one's houvec1369 to cough (a person) a daw, fool, momea1529 to make a fool of1534 to give (any one) the bobc1540 to lead (a person) a dancea1545 to make (someone) an ass1548 to make (a person) an ox1566 to play bob-fool witha1592 to sell any one a bargain1598 to put the fool on1649 to make a monkey (out) of1767 to play (a person) for a sucker (also fool, etc.)1869 to string (someone) along1902 to swing it on or across1923 the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict > affect or visit with adversity followOE waryc1200 hita1400 remord?c1400 visit1424 to lead (a person) the measures1594 conflict1609 to lead a person a life1715 overhit1816 put1841 to put (a person) through it1855 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement of [verb (transitive)] > traverse in winding course > lead person in perplexing course to lead, rarely give (a person) a dancea1545 to lead (a person) the measures1594 to lead (a person) a dance1861 a1545 Deth Edwarde IV in J. Skelton Certayne Bks. (c1563) 29 She [sc. Fortune] toke me by the hand and led me a daunce. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. H2 I pray God they may..both be led a darke daunce in the night. 1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. A4 Thats the dance her Husband meanes to leade her. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 44 Why he's able to leade her a Carranto. View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 89. ¶2 You know..my Passion for Mrs. Martha, and what a Dance she has led me. 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. iv. 91 I'll lead her such a Life she shall have little Comfort of me. 1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 70 They led St. Guthlac such a life, that [etc.]. 1861 Temple Bar Dec. 53 He..often leads them a fine chace over hill and dale. 1883 G. M. Fenn Middy & Ensign xvii. 107 The chaps would lead him such a life. 1892 Cornhill Mag. July 15 How can the captain so forget himself as to lead them a paper chase? 1892 Sunday Mag. Aug. 509/2 She had led him the life of a dog. < as lemmas |
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