| 单词 | to hack to death | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hack to death  1.  transitive. To make a hack of; to use in an indiscriminate way; to make common, stale, or trite by such treatment. Also  to hack about. Later only in  to hack to death, probably with allusion to hack v.1 1a. ΚΠ 1734    Gentleman's Mag. May 260/2  				The favourite unmeaning Terms of Art..does he hack about, without any Mercy. 1762    C. Denis in  St. James's Mag. 1 153  				If ever tale was hackt about, Grown obsolete, almost worn out, 'Tis that which now I undertake. 1864    Spectator No. 1874. 614  				We would that so good a name had not been..hacked about all over the country and in every newspaper, until it goes against the grain to use it. 1882    M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. i. 3  				Her tenderest emotions had been hacked and vulgarized by long experience in flirtation. 1883    St. James's Gaz. 14 Dec. 3/2  				[An] argument..which is being hacked to death in all the Radical newspapers. 1969    Greenfield 		(Mass.)	 Recorder 18 Jan.  				Song writers have literally hacked it to death. 1997    Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 45 350  				‘Gypsy king’ is a term that has been hacked to death by cub journalists. < as lemmas | 
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