| 单词 | to go it bald-headed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go it bald-headed colloquial phrase (originally U.S.) to go bald-headed (into, for, at), to dash or charge forward, without heeding danger or obstacles; to stake everything, to disregard consequences; to attack without care or thought; also to go it bald-headed. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > enter into incautiously or rashly [verb (transitive)] to go it blind1840 to go bald-headed (into, for, at)1848 to walk into ——1911 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. vi. 79 ‘Pious editor’ x I scent wich pays the best, an’ then Go into it baldheaded. 1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. xiv ‘To go it bald-headed’; in great haste, as where one rushes out without his hat. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 June 4/2 The Chicago Republicans, to use an Americanism, have gone ‘baldheaded’ for Protection. 1915 W. J. Gordon Flags of World 77 Warburg, where the colonel of the Blues, the Marquis of Granby, after a high trot of five miles led them hatless in the charge, ‘going bald-headed for the enemy’, and thus originated the well-known phrase. 1927 Daily Express 28 Feb. 7/3 It is the way of a woman to go bald-headed at her objectives. 1942 R. G. Collingwood New Leviathan 116 A sensible man does not go bald-headed into a brain-twister. 1960 M. Stewart My Brother Michael xiv. 180 You went bald-headed for the poor chap. < as lemmas |
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