| 单词 | to get the hill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get the hill d. Proverbs and sayings. †to get the hill, to get vantage-ground (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery, superiority, or advantage [verb (intransitive)] > have position of advantage > gain a position of superiority to get the hill1647 to get points on1880 c1305 St. Lucy 126 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 105 Euere heo lai stille as an hul. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rom. vii. 19) Corruption, edg'd with a temptation, gets as it were the hill, and the winde, and, upon such advantages, too oft prevaileth. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 292 A good Cause and Miscarriage meet oftner than Hills. 1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) I. 58 Why, he's as old as the Hills. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxv. 416 All this time, Martin was cursing Mr. Pecksniff up hill and down dale. 1857 R. C. Trench On Lessons in Proverbs (ed. 4) i. 21 Do in hill as you would do in hall. 1892 Bowen in Law Times Rep. 68 127/2 The law of estoppel by deed is as old as the hills. < as lemmas |
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