| 单词 | to go away with the worse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go away (also flee) with the worse ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > be defeated [verb (intransitive)] to have (also get) the worsec1275 leesec1300 to lick the dust, the earth1382 to get (also have) the waura1393 to go downa1400 to go away (also flee) with the worsea1413 to have the worsta1470 to go to (also unto) the worse1485 to go by the worse (also worst)1528 to have the overthrow1536 lose1548 tine1681 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated or overthrown [verb (intransitive)] fallOE to come (also go) to the groundc1175 confusec1330 to go away (also flee) with the worsea1413 to go to (also unto) the worse1485 to go to the wall (or walls)1549 foil1591 to go to the posta1624 to have had one's chips1959 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 49 The folk of Troye hem seluen so mysledden That with þe worse at nyght homward þey fledden. 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) i. ix. sig. aviv Fyghte not with the swerde that ye had by myracle, til that ye see ye go vnto the wers. ?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew vii. f. civ Which handes, if thou for werynes once let falle, thou goest to the worsse immediatlye. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 229 The souldiers of Athens..disdained also to serue with the others souldiers that had bene beaten many times, & went away with the worse. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 67 In those ordinary bickerings..he commonly went to the worse. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 251 Now sommer and winter alike they went to the worse [L. tum aestate atque hieme iuxta pellebantur]. 1632 P. Holland tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia i. 12 Went he any time away with the worse? very pleasant he was and laughed at himselfe most of all. < as lemmas |
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