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单词 to gather up one's crumbs
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to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs
4. to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs: to ‘pick up’ or recover strength or health; to improve in condition. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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wholeeOE
botenc1225
cover1297
amendc1325
recovera1375
warisha1386
recovera1387
healc1390
recurec1400
soundc1402
mendc1440
convalesce1483
guarish1489
restore1494
refete?a1505
revert1531
to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs1589
cure1597
recruit1644
to perk upa1656
retrieve1675
to pick up1740
to leave one's bed1742
to sit up and take nourishment1796
to get round1798
to come round1818
to pull through1830
rally1831
to fetch round1870
to mend up1877
to pull round1889
recoup1896
recuperate1897
1589 A. Ingram Let. 9 Sept. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 819 Our men began to gather vp their crums and to recouer some better strength.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. i. 1 Thanke God I..am recovering and picking up my crummes apace.
1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) To Pick up One's Crums, to gather strength.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvii. 294 The Boston boy..had ‘picked up his crumbs’, was..getting strength and confidence daily.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) A person or animal improving in appearance is said to be picking up his crumbs.
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