| 单词 | to handle without mittens |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto handle without mittens c. to handle without mittens: to treat unmercifully. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1650 G. Walker Anglo-Tyrannus 12 Thus the Members were illegally proceeded against, the Lords summoned to York, and the Parliament commanded to Oxford, and all that refused handled without mittens, their Estates being conferred on those who would engage for Tyranny, and themselves proclaimed Traytors and Rebels. 1666 Earl of Orrery Let. 25 June in Coll. State Lett. (1742) 168 I have..spoken with colonel Manly, whom I did handle without mittins about false musters in his company. 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xii. 167 He handled the Reverend Fathers without Mittens. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lv. 297 ‘However recklessly the whale may sometimes serve us,’ said humorous Stubb one day, ‘he can never be truly said to handle us without mittens.’ < as lemmas |
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