单词 | to get out |
释义 | > as lemmasto get out to get out 1. intransitive. a. To succeed in going or coming out; to convey oneself out of something; to leave a place of confinement.to get out from under: see under adv. 4c. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17350 (MED) Þai..did to sper þe dors fast..þat he suld noþer-quar get vte. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 199 Gett out of thise wonys, Ye trattys, all at onys. a1556 T. Cranmer in J. Strype Memorials T. Cranmer (1694) App. 105 Because the Devil could not get out at his mouth, the man blew him, or cacked him out behind. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 121 I found them [vegetable growths] just gotten out, with very little or no stalk. 1683 E. Leedes in More Eng. Examples (ed. 7) Ep. Ded. sig. A2 The loytering Book could not get out till now. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 19 Seven more got out after me, and 35 before, so that 43 of us only escaped. 1791 J. Ingraham Jrnl. 6 July (1971) v. 95 The wind was unfair to get out, and the passage was narrow to beat. 1831 R. Sharp Diary 30 Mar. (1997) 303 I got out pretty well but rather hurt my Ancle Bone of which I dare not complain. 1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 1 Aug. 231/3 A syringe, in many cases, will be preferable to the water-pot, as the oil and water will have a better chance of getting out. 1885 A. S. Hill From Home to Home 66 We got out—into the mud and into the dark. 1898 E. F. Benson Money Market (1899) iv. 43 She saw..a hansom drive up and a young man get out. 1917 Sphere 31 Mar. 286/3 At Oxford Circus they got out. 1957 Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana) 13 Sept. 5 Heat gets out through these leaks in a steady stream all winter long. 1973 A. Storr Jung iv. 70 Within the ascetic is a sentimentalist trying to get out. 2010 B. Agbaje Off Endz xiii. 74 The best thing is for you to get out—get far away—a new place where you can get your head around things. b. In imperative. colloquial. (a) Commanding a person or animal to leave a room, house, etc.: ‘go away’, ‘be off’. ΚΠ 1711 R. Molesworth tr. F. Hotman Franco-Gallia xix. 133 You have nothing to do here (said She) get out. 1771 J. Ryland Serious Ess. on Truths of Gospel xxxvii. 86 Get out, get out, you stink of the whore of Rome. 1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse Shoe Robinson (1852) v. 60 ‘Get out, you varmints,’ he shouted, with a sudden vivacity of utterance, at three or four dogs that were barking around him. 1887 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 763/2 ‘I shan't, then’, said the boy sulkily..‘He belongs to my father—you get out’. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song 19 He would throw a bottle at Ellison and shout ‘Get out, you bloody dish-clout!’ so loud it was heard across at the Manse and fair affronted the minister's wife. 1972 A. Draper Death Penalty v. 36 ‘Get out, you fucker,’ screamed a youth. 2007 Nylon Feb. 46/2 I'm so disoriented that I start screaming—‘Who are you? Get out!’ Then, after a long staredown, we both burst out laughing. (b) Expressing disbelief, dissent, or refusal to hear more. ΚΠ 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. x. 143 Kit only replied by bashfully bidding his mother ‘get out’. 1851 ‘G. Seaworthy’ Bertie vii. 78 Thrue as the tin commandhers! Git aout! 1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite iii. 208 Christ, that his mother? I could sleep with her the morn and think her his sister... Sulky-looking bitch... Get out, she's fine. 1998 P. Mehlman Apartment in L. David et al. Seinfeld Scripts 288 Jerry. And the rent's only four hundred dollars a month. Elaine. Get out. Four hundred a month? Only four hundred a month? 2002 Washington Post 14 Mar. (Home ed.) c3/4 (cartoon caption) ‘And to think I started as just a flight attendant.’ ‘Get out. What an unusual story.’ c. To leave one's home or lodgings for some purpose, esp. habitually. Hence figurative: to mix with other people frequently (chiefly in the negative, esp. in to not get out much, with the implication that a person is out of touch). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] outgoeOE to come outOE forthcomeOE to go outOE to go outOE ishc1330 to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375 proceedc1380 getc1390 exorta1400 issue?a1400 precedec1425 purgea1430 to come forthc1449 suea1450 ushc1475 to call one's way (also course)1488 to turn outa1500 void1558 redound1565 egress1578 outpacea1596 result1598 pursue1651 out1653 pop1770 to get out1835 progress1851 society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication [verb (intransitive)] > mix in society show1631 to go out1735 to see life1763 mix1816 to get out1835 1835 M. R. Mitford Belford Regis I. 270 I have been building a pretty cottage there for him and his wife..; and now that I see you do get out sometimes, if you would but come and see it—. 1864 Lady Duff-Gordon in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1862–3 151 I..hope to go again when the south-easter season is over and I can get out a little. I could not leave the house at all; and even Lady Walker and the girls..got out but little. 1884 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 14 Feb. 154/1 During the last year he had been obliged to keep his bed much of the time, yet he always got out a little whenever possible. 1909 M. Reed Old Rose & Silver xii. 134 She needs to get out more. If someone would take her for a walk or a drive every day, it would do her good. 1931 A. Christie Sittaford Myst. xvii. 134 She was an invalid and quite unable to get out. 1994 N.Y. Mag. 21 Feb. 48/1 Maybe I don't get out enough, but I seem to have missed the public outcry for a remake of The Getaway. 2002 R. Williams Sing yer Heart out for Lads i. 22 Lawrie Oh yes, nuttin more sexier than a landlady pouring a smooth top. Gina Don't get out much, do yer, Lawrie? d. To leave or abandon a course of action, business enterprise, job, etc.; esp. in to get on or get out, expressing the importance of being dynamic in one's business or employment. ΚΠ 1906 P. Keary Get on or get Out 3 Get on or get out. Don't be afraid of that phrase. It's the whole of the ten Commandments of Business rolled into five small words. 1911 Punch 1 Nov. 319 Get on or get out! 1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 9 Railwaymen to ‘get on or get out!’ 2003 BusinessWeek 5 May 82 He has established a Darwinian code that encourages managers to take risks and gives them six months..to show they can succeed—or get out. 2013 Independent on Sunday 27 Jan. 46 The most sinister thing about the ‘get on or get out mentality’..is its newfound technological underpinning, so that every mid-evening train in England is filled with nervous men in suits, anxiously awaiting their boss's final call. 2. transitive. a. To bring out, to take from a place of confinement, storage, etc.; to remove; to obtain, esp. by extraction (also figurative in proverbial phrase to get out what one puts in). ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] unteeOE to take out of ——c1175 forthdraw?a1300 out-takea1350 to take outa1382 excludec1400 dischargec1405 to get outc1432 tryc1440 extraya1450 out-have1458 to take fortha1550 extract1570 reave1640 eliciate1651 roust1658 uncork1740 to put out of ——1779 to break out1840 c1432 in PMLA (1934) 49 456 If he come nat geteþ out a warant fro my mayster. c1440 (?a1400) Sir Perceval (1930) l. 2064 Perceuell the gode, He [read Hys] swerde owt he get. c1450 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (BL Add. 36983) p. 1666 (MED) A! þat wrech Frende withoute, þat non frende gete may hym oute. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlixv The bolles of flaxe..made drie with the sonne, to get out the sedes. 1569 J. Hawkins True Declar. Troublesome Voy. sig. B.iiiv So leesinge hyr hedfastes, and haylinge awaye by the stearne fastes she was gotten out. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 123 Much after the manner that Fell-mongers beat their Furs, to get out the Worms. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 53 If by mischance Wine should be shed upon their cloaths, the greatest Drunkard that is, endeavours to get out the stain. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 46 Some of them were gotten out by the Caulkers with their Spike-Irons. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 105 It falling calm, we both got out our Oars. 1764 S. Foote Lyar i. ii. 10 My dear Miss Godfrey, what trouble I have had to get you out! 1801 R. Cecil Wks. (1811) I. 138 He was led to invent an instrument for transferring the form of the model to the marble (technically called getting out the points). 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. v. 42 That rascal Blackland got the bones out, and we played hazard on the dining-table. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iii. 275 You've been making all these foolish marks on yourself, which you can never get out. 1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 67 The excavation in which the shaft is placed is got out. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 49/2 To get the jail taste out of my mouth and the jail smell out of my clothes and hair! 1919 Wire & Pipe Feb. 28/1 I remember the words of Branch Rickey, the baseball leader, in a lecture I heard some time ago: ‘You put in what you get out, and you get out what you put in.’ 1947 H. Eustis Horizontal Man 85 I had dreams of getting out my pipe and slippers and pulling up to a big open bar with you tonight. 2001 Church Times 16 Feb. 23/4 Exegetes try to get out what the original authors put in. 2013 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 10 Mar. 5 They were not happily married... I am surprised she didn't get the champagne out and say, ‘Thank God I have got rid of you after all these years’. b. To draw out (information), elicit, find out by inquiry. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] > by asking or enquiring askOE speer1390 to get out1530 hark1561 hearken1590 outlearn1596 elicitate1642 elicita1676 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 563/1 I get out the truthe of a mater that is in doute, je saiche and je espluche. 1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xiii. 11 Smiling vpon thee [he] will get out thy secrets. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 230 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors They endeavour to get out the truth by fair means. 1718 J. Breval Play is Plot iv. 39 Ply him with Liquor, get out his whole Story. 1861 Temple Bar 2 139 In cross~examination I had ‘got out’ some facts. 1905 S. E. Baldwin Amer. Judiciary xiv. 207 A large discretionary power..in limiting or extending the examination of a witness so as..to get out the truth and nothing but the truth. 1988 Mother Jones May 4/1 It surely will not advance the uphill battle to get out the truth about who has controlled our government in the last three decades. c. To succeed in bringing out (a sound or utterance). ΚΠ 1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule 390 If once they can get out but these few wordes, God bee mercifull to mee, they thinke that they shall be in heauen. 1718 E. Settle Lady's Triumph iv. 41 I can't get out one Word for Sobbing. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 269 I could not find it in my heart to get out a negative. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 23 The lark could scarce get out his notes for joy. 1919 Current Opinion June 369/1 If the high notes of the series are faint and the low notes loud, composers will naturally make their bass move slower than their treble, since loud notes take a longer time to get their sound out. 1976 M. Apple Oranging of Amer. 116 ‘Your grandpa,’ he got out, ‘was a dumbass son of a bitch.’ 2000 I. Edward-Jones My Canapé Hell (2001) iii. 66 Occasionally he stutters as his gurning teeth are moving too quickly for him to get the words out. d. To publish (a book, news, etc.).Occasionally (as in quot. 1786) intransitive in the progressive with passive meaning or with implied object. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > publishing > publish [verb (transitive)] to put forth1482 to put out1529 to set forth1535 promulge1539 to set abroada1555 present1559 to set out1559 utter1561 divulge1566 publish1573 print?1594 emit1650 edition1715 edit1727 to give to the world1757 to get out1786 to send forth1849 to bring out1878 run1879 release1896 pub1932 1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 6 A bad French translation which is getting out here. 1846 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. Mar. in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. ii. 141 I wish we could get the book out in May. 1870 D. G. Rossetti Let. 3 Feb. (1965) II. 787 I suppose I cannot get out till April. 1955 E. A. Powell Adventure Road xiv. 99 But if I do succeed in getting out the news, I shall expect to have my expenses refunded and to be paid adequately for my work. 1981 K. Vonnegut Palm Sunday (1982) v. 89 The Viking Press, which gets out collections of Paris Review interviews. 2011 D. Gibson Stories about Storytellers xx. 341 We refused to let our grief delay the book, and moved fast to get it out in June. e. Originally U.S. (a) To induce (voters) to go to the ballot at an election. ΚΠ 1838 Proc. & Deb. Convent. Pennsylvania Amendments Constit. XI. 331 You cannot get out the voters of this state to any special election, or to any election for the President of the United States, as generally as they will attend at the election in October. 1882 Papers New Haven Colony Hist. Soc. 3 305 At that period there was no drumming and bannered or mousing politicians to get out the voters. 1949 L. R. Taylor Party Politics in Age of Caesar iii. 59 An attraction that doubtless aided in getting out the voters. 1985 J. Mortimer Paradise Postponed xvi. 194 They were both there ‘to get out’ Labour voters. (b) to get out the vote: to encourage and facilitate voting, esp. by supporters of a particular political party. Frequently attributive, designating efforts to do this. Abbreviated GOTV. ΚΠ 1861 Daily Commerc. Reg. (Sandusky, Ohio) 28 May (heading) Get out the vote. We especially urge it upon the friends of Judge Worcester to be active to-day in securing a full vote for him in the city. 1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxv. 314 On election morning he was out at four o'clock, ‘getting out the vote’: he had a two-horse carriage to ride in, and he went from house to house for his friends. 1940 P. Sturges Down went McGinty (release dialogue script) reel 1-B 1 That ain't no reason why Mayor Tillinghast should get cheated outta their support! All we're doin' is gettin' out the vote. 1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 Oct. 20/1 The law allowed unlimited individual and corporate contributions to political parties of money that can be used to elect candidates for state office and for so-called ‘party-building’ activities, including..voter-registration campaigns and ‘get out the vote’ drives. 2015 Observer (Nexis) 17 May Our ‘get out the vote’ operation had been a huge success. 3. intransitive. Stock Market. To get rid of one's shares in an enterprise. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (intransitive)] > specific operations soften1565 to get out1728 bear1837 to rig the (stock) market1841 stag1845 cornera1860 to straddle the market1870 raid1889 to make a market1899 to job backwards1907 to mark to (the) market1925 short1959 daisy-chain1979 to pitch for ——1983 society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (intransitive)] > pay to delay transfer to get out1728 contango1922 1728 Advantages South-sea Scheme (rev. ed.) 29 Far from taking the Opportunity of the exorbitant Rise of the Stock to get out,..they rather bought more. 1736 Dialogue between Gentleman & Broker 18 You may venture now with a seeming very good Prospect, and get out again with Profit. 1887 Daily News 21 July 6/1 Until they shall have retailed their wares, and, to use the expressive slang of the Stock Exchange, ‘got out’. 1958 Life 15 Sept. 96/2 They bought stocks on the narrow margin (down payment) of 10% or 20% and hoped to make a quick killing and get out fast. 1992 Daily Tel. 24 July 23/3 Against a closing level on Wednesday of 34p, the mid-price collapsed to 18p, with one holder of 50,000 shares getting out at 17p. 4. intransitive. Of information, news, etc.: to leak out, become generally known. Also with it as subject and that-clause. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed > inadvertently to get out1792 to leak out1832 slip1848 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. 33 The report, so unfavourable to the clergyman, had..got out. 1877 W. H. Russell Prince of Wales' Tour (1878) xiv. 478 For, says he, if it gets out that we say we seed the sea-serpent, there's not a man will ever be employed again! 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn 368 It ain't right and it ain't moral, and I wouldn't like it to get out. 1891 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 28 Nov. 2/3 The fact that this step was to be taken did not get out till the charges were safe in the hands of the Governor. 1948 C. Rice Big Midget Murders xiii. 112 It would raise absolute hell with him if the news got out he'd married a chorus girl while on a bender. 1995 M. Kesavan Looking through Glass 249 He didn't want it getting out that the hero of his film, the most bankable star in the industry.., had disappeared. 5. transitive. Cricket. To cause (a batter or side) to be out (out adv. 3c), to put out, dismiss. Also intransitive: to be put out. to get oneself out: to be dismissed, to be got out, frequently with the implication that one is oneself largely to blame. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > dismissal of batsman > put out [verb (transitive)] to put out1735 take1828 to get out1833 remove1843 to send back1870 dismiss1875 out1899 get1901 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > dismissal of batsman > put out [verb (intransitive)] > dismissal (of player) fall1829 to get out1833 1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 89 They were devilish troublesome customers to get out. 1837 Globe 22 Sept. Wenman..took it very quietly, and for a length of time defied all their efforts to get him out. 1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iv. 198 People get themselves out off slow bowling more often than the bowler gets them out. 1908 E. P. Oppenheim Missioner i. vi. 62 Stephen is in now... If he gets out, the match is over. 1912 A. A. Lilley Twenty-four Years Cricket x. 137 He [sc. Victor Trumper]..never gave one the remotest suggestion that he would ever get out. 1926 J. B. Hobbs My Cricket Mem. xvi. 214 We did well to get them out for this total. 1999 Cricketer Mar. 9/3 Hick was left stranded as a procession of batsmen got themselves out to lose the match by 16 runs. 6. intransitive. Horse Racing slang. To back a horse against which one has previously betted. ΚΠ 1845 Spirit of Times 28 July 208/2 Persons who had backed him, who were anxious to ‘get out’, were reluctantly forced to stand to be ‘shot at’, with the agreeable consolation of finding that they were unexpected winners to a very large amount. 1884 H. Smart From Post to Finish xlii Johnson..had taken more than one opportunity of what is termed ‘getting out’, that is, backing the horse against which he had previously laid. 1971 N.Y. Times 26 Dec. For the average $2 bettor, the superfecta represents a chance..to ‘get out’ for all those losing bets on horses who got blocked along the rail, went too wide or broke into an illegal gallop at a crucial point. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [verb (intransitive)] fall1633 to get out1852 1852 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 13 ii. 336 The afternoon got out very fine. 8. transitive. colloquial. To succeed in solving or finishing (a puzzle, game, etc.); (also) to untangle (something knotted). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > patience or solitaire > [verb (transitive)] > solve to get out1852 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > find solution, solve [verb (transitive)] findOE assoilc1374 soil1382 contrive1393 to find outc1405 resolvea1438 absolvea1525 solute?1531 solve?1541 dissolve1549 get1559 salvec1571 to beat out1577 sort1581 explicate1582 untiea1586 loose1596 unsolve1631 cracka1640 unscruple1647 metagrobolize1653 to puzzle out1717 to work out1719 to get around ——1803 to dope out1906 lick1946 to get out1951 1852 ‘A. Lothrop’ Dollars & Cents II. xxxi. 300 Both boys come rushing in with a fishing line in a puzzle. ‘You never can get it out Miss Grace, but we thought maybe you'd try.’ 1924 B. Dalton Games of Patience 34 Lady Betty..The game..is not easy to get out. 1928 R. A. Knox Footsteps at Lock xvi. 158 He had ‘got it out’. ‘The cipher?’ ‘No, the patience.’ 1931 N. Coward Post Mortem ii. 16 Lady Cavan is seated at a bridge table playing Canfield Patience... Lady C. I got it out yesterday. 1951 C. P. Snow Masters iii. xli. 328 I've got it out!.. I've got the answer to the slow neutron business. 1999 C. R. Swindoll Moses vii. 112 The knot was so tiny and tight it would take an act of God to untie it. I had told him time and again, ‘Son, when you pull the strings and it won't open like it's supposed to, don't jerk harder... ’ He would usually reply, ‘Well, I keep thinking I can get it out. That's why I pull harder.’ 2010 G. J. Derbyshire Stand up for Autism i. 32 I had very long hair... I had to cut it because he twisted part of it into a knot and I couldn't get it out again. < as lemmas |
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