单词 | to go it alone |
释义 | > as lemmasto go it alone (ii) With complement indicating independence. To act or proceed by oneself or independently, without support or help. Originally and chiefly in to go it alone. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > be independent [verb (intransitive)] to have one's own rulea1393 to be one's own man (also woman, person)a1425 to be one's own master?1510 to stand on one's own bottom1564 to sit loose1591 independa1657 to paddle one's own canoe1828 to go it alone1842 to run one's own show1892 to go one's (own) gait1922 1842 Spirit of Times 9 Apr. 67/1 George pulled..to the head of the next quarter stretch, where his jockey looking at what he had in ‘hand’, determined to ‘go it alone’. 1855 Knickerbocker Apr. 335 A ball through his frontal bone Laid him flat on his back on the hard-fought ground, And left Captain Davis to go it alone. 1868 J. M. Dalzell John Gray 48 If he goes into business, he goes it by himself. 1907 Forest & Stream 24 Aug. 291/1 I speak of the trips on which you go it without a guide. 1966 Rep. Comm. Inq. (Univ. of Oxf.) I. 28 The appropriate question must be posed: not ‘how far can any college go it alone?’ but ‘how far can the colleges..co-operate to form the policies of Oxford?’ 2000 J. N. Wasserstrom in J. N. Wasserstrom et al. Human Rights & Revol. ii. 24 NATO did not seek and then wait for UN support for intervention,..but went it alone. < as lemmas |
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