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单词 to get away
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to get away
to get away
1. intransitive.
a. To escape; to succeed in departing. In recent use also with the implication of going on holiday.
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the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)]
atfareOE
atcomec1220
atstertc1220
atrouta1250
ascape1250
astart1250
atblenchc1275
scapec1275
aschapec1300
fleec1300
ofscapea1325
escapec1330
overfleea1382
to get awaya1400
slipa1400
starta1400
skiftc1440
eschewc1450
withstartec1460
rida1470
chape1489
to flee (one's) touch?1515
evadea1522
betwynde?1534
to make out1558
outscape1562
outslip1600
to come off1630
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7902 (MED) In batail sua he suld be sette, þat he awai suld neuer gette.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 223 The lordis war gottin all avay.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job i. 17 The Caldees..haue..slayne the seruauntes with the swearde: and I only am gotten awaye, to tell the.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2174/1 Ere euer I could arise and get away, he was come in with me.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 131 David..had leisure enough to get away whilest the Kings messengers were so deceived.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 309 They also fasten them..that, in case they should break or slip their Halters, they may not get away.
1706 tr. P. M. de la Martinière New Voy. to North xxi. 209 A drunken Bout at parting, without which there's no getting away from a House in Russia.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 15 They escap'd from the City, as from a Prison, and got away into the Country.
1775 S. Johnson Let. 8 Apr. (1992) II. 197 When shall I come down to you? I believe I can get away pretty early in May.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 13 He came out of the Tower, or, rather, got away out of it somehow or other.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 30 Mar. (1955) VI. 235 We want very much to get away, but I fear we shall hardly be able to start till the end of May.
1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus 56 All our party was glad to get away.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xlvi. 228 He was in a hurry to get away. The mustiness of the room made his head ache.
1961 E. R. Curtis Season in Utopia iv. 127 The older man, himself in a state of spiritual dissatisfaction, understood Isaac's need to get away by himself.
1987 P. Lively Moon Tiger x. 130 You ought to get away for a bit... You must be run-down.
2008 C. Clark Hangman Blind (2009) 286 I'll be watching, waiting, following. You'll never get away. The fields have eyes.
b. In imperative. Also in get away with you (now rare).
(a) Go away, be off; = to get along 1b at Phrasal verbs 1. Also with from, sometimes as a warning or caution.
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1600 Looke about You sig. K4v Ley. Is that your busines? Red. I by my t t troth is it. Hen. Then get away.
1783 Double Conspiracy ii. 23 Bet.Get away;—I'll tell Father on you.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. vii. 135 Take whatever you like, and get away . View more context for this quotation
1828 Punch & Judy i. i. 77 Toby, you're one nasty cross dog: get away with you!
1859 A. L. Elwyn Gloss. Supposed Americanisms 80Get away, you nasty fellow!’ may be heard from one of the female sex, who finds one of the male sex somewhat too importunate or familiar.
1886 App. Jrnl. House of Representatives Ohio 82 157 You get away from here, damn you, or I will knock the shit out of you.
1900 K. L. Bates Spanish Highways & Byways vii. 101 Children sing insulting verses after him in the street, especially that pious ditty:—‘Get away with you, Protestants, Out of our Catholic Spain.’
1935 H. Heslop Last Cage Down ii. x. 253Get away!’ snapped Bill, wearying of the argument. ‘Go on, get out-bye before I lose me temper.’
1997 A. Smith Like (2001) 272 Get away from those canal banks Aisling McCarthy or I'll tell your father on you.
1999 C. Grimshaw Provocation xvi. 263 He stood at the kitchen window starring at me. I moved towards him and he held up his hand. ‘Get away,’ he said.
(b) colloquial (chiefly British). As an expression of astonishment or incredulity: ‘go on’, you don't say (so).
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > expressions of disbelief [interjection]
to go toc1275
in good timea1470
Walker1811
to get off1818
this beats my grandmother1819
to go on1835
your granny!1837
to get away1847
I ask you1855
great guns!1875
sure1907
oh yeah1927
Aunt Fanny1928
go 'long1974
to sod off1976
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection]
whatOE
well, wellOE
avoyc1300
ouc1300
ay1340
lorda1393
ahaa1400
hillaa1400
whannowc1450
wow1513
why?1520
heydaya1529
ah1538
ah me!a1547
fore me!a1547
o me!a1547
what the (also a) goodyear1570
precious coals1576
Lord have mercy (on us)1581
good heavens1588
whau1589
coads1590
ay me!1591
my stars!a1593
Gods me1595
law1598
Godso1600
to go out1600
coads-nigs1608
for mercy!a1616
good stars!1615
mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616
gramercy1617
goodness1623
what next?1662
mon Dieu1665
heugh1668
criminy1681
Lawd1696
the dickens1697
(God, etc.) bless my heart1704
alackaday1705
(for) mercy's sake!1707
my1707
deuce1710
gracious1712
goodly and gracious1713
my word1722
my stars and garters!1758
lawka1774
losha1779
Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784
great guns!1795
mein Gott1795
Dear me!1805
fancy1813
well, I'm sure!1815
massy1817
Dear, dear!1818
to get off1818
laws1824
Mamma mia1824
by crikey1826
wisha1826
alleleu1829
crackey1830
Madonna mia1830
indeed1834
to go on1835
snakes1839
Jerusalem1840
sapristi1840
oh my days1841
tear and ages1841
what (why, etc.) in time?1844
sakes alive!1846
gee willikers1847
to get away1847
well, to be sure!1847
gee1851
Great Scott1852
holy mackerel!1855
doggone1857
lawsy1868
my wig(s)!1871
gee whiz1872
crimes1874
yoicks1881
Christmas1882
hully gee1895
'ullo1895
my hat!1899
good (also great) grief!1900
strike me pink!1902
oo-er1909
what do you know?1909
cripes1910
coo1911
zowiec1913
can you tie that?1918
hot diggety1924
yeow1924
ziggety1924
stone (or stiffen) the crows1930
hullo1931
tiens1932
whammo1932
po po po1936
how about that?1939
hallo1942
brother1945
tie that!1948
surprise1953
wowee1963
yikes1971
never1974
to sod off1976
whee1978
mercy1986
yipes1989
1804 J. Kenney Matrimony ii. 38 Cla. Don't you believe me? See then my solicitude, my tears! O'Clog. (aside) Faith if I do, you'll see mine too.—aloud Get away with you.
1834 W. A. Caruthers Cavaliers of Virginia I. ix. 124 Oh! get away wid your blarney, says I, you're safe now as the Governor's old bull wid the short tail and the shambles on two of his legs.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxii. 190 ‘Don't trifle with her affections, you Don Juan!’ ‘Get away,’ said Jos Sedley, quite pleased.
1927 W. S. Maugham in Nash's & Pall Mall Mag. June 94/3 ‘Annie and I have decided to get married too.’ Annie received this announcement with a gurgled ‘Oh, get away with you!’
1960 H. Pinter Dumb Waiter 124 Ben. The lorry started and ran over him. Gus. Go on! Ben. That's what it says here. Gus. Get away.
1969 ‘D. Cory’ Night Hawk 16 ‘Do you speak Spanish?’ ‘Of course I do. I am Spanish.’ ‘Get away.’ ‘I am. I can prove it.’
1982 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 2nd Ser. Episode 7. 121 Lady R. It's mostly Dresden. And that particular piece is worth several hundred pounds. Del. Is it really? Gawd, get away.
2003 C. Birch Turn again Home xx. 244 ‘I missed you,’ she said. ‘I cry for you every day.’‘Get away!’ he said softly.
c. to get away with.
(a) To do (something) with impunity or (in recent use) without encountering a possible setback. Frequently in to get away with it: to succeed in what one tries; to act without being detected or punished. to get away with murder: to get away with anything; to do whatever one wishes.
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1669 G. Hutcheson Expos. Job xxiv. 508 It is a friendly act to wish that men do not get away with their faults.
1864 Amer. War (Soc. promoting Cessation of Hostilities Amer.) 11/1 He and his brother will leave here (if they can get away with it) immensely rich in spoils of other people's property.
1874 J. Miller Unwritten Hist.: Life amongst Modocs (new ed.) vi. 95 Bet you the cigars, I don't! Whenever my man comes to the centre, I will call him, see if I don't, and get away with it, too.
1914 N.Y. Times 9 May 7/2 Jake, you're getting away with murder here.
1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay x. 145 He had no sense of time or of order. But he got away with it, as he liked to say.
1939 Chatelaine Sept. 19/2 Usually she's young enough and amusing enough to ‘get away with murder’.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 12 He would sometimes say of the ways of the Army in pay and supply and the use of ‘man-hours’: ‘They couldn't get away with that in business.’
1958 Times Oct. 3/3 A film set in Ireland and relying upon whimsical comedy can get away, if not with murder, at least with weaknesses.
1968 Listener 8 Aug. 164/3 Nobody can quite believe that Mr Dubcek is being allowed to get away with it.
1974 D. Goines Daddy Cool xii. 163 Seething with anger, the burly man gained control. ‘You punks will never get away with this shit. I guess you realize that, don't you?’
1981 Pop. Photogr. Feb. 114/2 Sometimes you can get away with moving an arm or leg.
2011 Independent 25 Oct. 27/4 Eating a fruitarian diet would allow him to get away with bathing just once a week.
(b) colloquial (originally U.S.). To carry off successfully; to succeed in winning or stealing.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > manage to secure (a result) > succeed in winning or stealing
to get away with1873
1873 B. Harte Mliss xxxviii. 111 At billiards he beat the sporting men whom miners always like to see beaten, and in sporting parlance ‘got away’ with large sums of their coin.
1886 Boston Jrnl. 18 Dec. 2/4 They got away with the pennant three successive seasons.
1892 Congress. Rec. 13 Dec. 122/2 [These gentlemen] will have to be content with the pitiful $240,000 that they have already ‘got away with’.
1928 Observer 25 Mar. 14 Some of the artists may be able, as the phrase goes, to ‘get away with the swag’.
1952 M. Huxley Let. in N. Murray Aldous Huxley (2003) ix. 114 An upstart little refugee getting away with the prize of the artistic English world.
1996 G. B. Tangwa I spit on their Graves (2010) 135 From the moment Cameroonians let him get away with the trophy of the October 11th 1992 presidential elections, he knew he could get away with anything.
(c) U.S. slang. To get the better of, to beat in a contest.
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1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds ii. 41 More'n once the robbers would tackle some gritty man that was handy with his ‘barkers’, an' he'd get away with two or three of 'em.
1887 A. A. Hayes Jesuit's Ring 227 The boys got away with the..road agents.
1908 Dial. Notes 3 314 You can't get away with me.
1931 T. Dreiser Dawn lxviii. 386 She's very cute and sweet all right, but she's got to do business or quit. If I don't get away with her, I'll let you know.
2005 M. Lauria & L. F. Mirón Urban Schools iv. 79 They'll make sure you don't get away with them like you got away with the next person.
d. Usually with a negative. To disregard or escape from (a fact, implication, etc.).Frequently in there is no getting away from.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > escape the attention of
overpass1535
overslip1574
overscape1581
fly?1611
slip1653
to get away1811
miss1880
1811 Adviser Dec. 358/1 The boy's question gave him great disturbance. He tried to fling it out of his mind, but was by no means able to get away from it.
1845 Southern Lit. Messenger Sept. 523/1 A labored effort to get away from the New Testament endorsement of the principle [of slavery], so far as permissibility is concerned.
1912 T. Dreiser Financier lvii. 601 A jail is a jail; and there is no getting away from that.
1930 A. Christie Murder at Vicarage xi. 84 It's his pistol—you can't get away from that.
1974 H. S. Thompson Let. 21–24 Feb. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 586 There is no way to get away from names and personalities in any serious talk about the '76 election.
2000 S. McKay Northern Protestants 21 She said what we were was bred into us and there was no getting away from it.
e. Of a plant: to start growing vigorously or well.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] > grow or increase in size
waxc897
growa1000
to get away1813
to grow up1840
to grow away1933
1813 A. Murray Gen. View Agric. County Warwick 92 Another management of a wheat crop by other farmers, is to harrow and roll the ground, if battered and bound, and the plants appear not to get away.
1832 C. Don Gen. Hist. Dichlamydeous Plants II. 314/1 Instead of benefitting the ground, they [sc. beans] were of detriment to it, for weeds got away on the outset, and in dry seasons often ruined the crop.
1913 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) 126 At Avondale the young plantations have to get away from a thick mat of grass.
1957 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 82 370 If the ground is broken into rubble the roots can get away and the plant will flourish.
1960 F. C. Stern Chalk Garden xv. 163 It is advisable to put them in as small plants as they get away much quicker than large plants.
2001 B. Law Woodland Way iv. 68 Wild cherry, alder and rowan get away particularly well.
f. Hunting and Horse Racing. To start, to set off (briskly).
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1823 Manch. Guardian 20 Sept. It appears there were three false starts, and that on the fourth 23 horses got away, leaving four behind.
1875 G. J. Whyte-Melville Riding Recoll. ii Exhaust, therefore, all your knowledge of woodcraft to get away on good terms with the hounds.
1889 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 11 Dec. 2/5 All the horses got away very prettily and Prince Beauclerk soon pulled away from the crowd.
1948 Life 21 June 32 (caption) Dewey, Taft and Stassen will get away fast, but watch out for Dark Horse Vandenberg on the backstretch.
1999 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 27 Dec. 34 I didn't think she had much luck in that race as the first three got away while she was still finding her way out.
g. Originally U.S. Of fire: to spread quickly or uncontrolledly; (with from) to get out of the control of a person.
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1838 C. W. Dudley Rep. Court of Appeals S. Carolina 1837–8 265 He was in no way privy to the burning, and that the circumstance of the fire getting away, was unintentional and accidental.
1897 L. Lindley-Cowen West Austral. Settler's Guide ii. iv. 232 Every precaution should be taken to prevent the fire getting away, and it is better to burn a strip round the fences first in order to obviate this as far as possible.
1906 Rep. Royal N.-W. Mounted Police 1905 i. 22 A Mennonite farmer near Herbert..was burning the grass..when the fire got away from him.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Oct. 295/1 There would be danger of fires getting away on sunny faces when the vegetation was very dry.
1997 D. Backes Wilderness Within 335 He was burning a brush pile..when the fire got away from him.
2011 A. S. Mathews Instituting Nature v. 138 If people burned without giving notice, if they didn't open up firebreaks and if the fire got away they would be punished.
2. transitive.
a. To get rid of; to shake off (a sickness). Obsolete.
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a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 2371 (MED) Oft to the lauenders he it sent..the weping spottes in no wise Thei coude with noo craft gete a-way.
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health lxxxix.103 Let the burning be taken or gotten away with the whyte of an egge, or freshe butter.
1676 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 34 The season continues so seveere I cannot get away my ill cold nor goe out of the house.
1771 L. Carter Diary 11 Sept. (1965) II. 627 To some after their fevers abate and Puzerys change I give Mercury to get away the worms.
b. To take out of safe keeping or from someone's possession; to carry off, steal, appropriate, liberate; (also) to enable to depart. Also reflexive: to make one's escape, get away, depart. Now rare.
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the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate
ownOE
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to swallow up1654
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spheterize1779
sack1807
fob1818
to look back to1822
mop1861
annex1865
c1480 (a1400) St. George 883 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 201 Men..gat away prywely of his relykis a party.
a1500 (?c1400) Sir Triamour (Cambr.) (1937) l. 479 Ther myght no man gete hym [sc. a greyhound] away.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 178 The kyng..hade hit goten Paladian the pure god pertly away.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xx. 25 b There was no remedy to get them [prisoners] away, but by great presents.
1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. 27 Taking a little courage to her, she got her speedily away.
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Bb3v/2 She got away the best Things in the House, elle a soustrait..ce qu'il y avoit de meilleur dans le Logis... He has got away my Customers.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 71 Hegh, Hegh, Hegh, the Rogues..have got away my Bag!
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 319 We could not..do any thing towards endeavouring to get the Vessel away.
1812 S. Randall Miser iii. iv. 38 He must be paid for't, yes yes—I understand—another plot to get away my money, yes yes.
1896 R. Hovey Along Trail (1899) 56 I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling, Lone and high.
1925 S. Lewis Arrowsmith (1998) 61 While she gaped with disappointment at his lukewarmness, he got himself away.
1972 R. Adams Watership Down xxxviii. 303 If a patrol finds us before Bigwig comes, it won't be just a matter of getting ourselves away.
2004 C. Feehan Mind Game (2005) 44 There would be more violence and more death before he managed to get her away safely.
c. Cricket. To hit (the ball) past the fieldsman, so as to make a run or runs. Also with the bowler as object.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > hit > hit with specific stroke
take1578
stop1744
nip1752
block1772
drive1773
cut1816
draw1816
tip1816
poke1836
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mow1844
to put up1845
smother1845
sky1849
crump1850
to pick up1851
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skyrocket1851
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to put down1860
to get away1868
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leg1892
push1893
hook1896
flick1897
on-drive1897
chop1898
glance1898
straight drive1898
cart1903
edge1904
tonk1910
sweep1920
mishook1934
middle1954
square-drive1954
tickle1963
square-cut1976
slash1977
splice1982
paddle1986
1868 Baily's Monthly Mag. July 128 The two first-named..exhibited splendid defence; but they could not get the ball away.
1903 C. F. Wood in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket xii. 379 Scoring is out of the question. You may stop the ball as long as your patience lasts, but you can't get it away.
1955 Times 12 May 4/4 Phillips was one of five freshmen to bowl. He is tall and an awkward man to get away by reason of his length.
2008 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 12 June (Sport section) 30 Bowlers pitched a bit shorter, and because he wasn't used to it, he couldn't get the ball away. He didn't last long.
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