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单词 to lead a person a life
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to 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.
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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.
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