单词 | to get to grips with |
释义 | > as lemmasto get to grips with a. Firm or tenacious hold, grasp, or control; power, mastery (now esp. associated with the idea of oppression or irresistible force). †Formerly also plural as to fasten one's grips on, let go one's grips, etc. Also to get (or take) a grip on (oneself), to get to grips with (something). ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > control and possession wieldnesseOE fathomOE waldOE wieldOE wieldingOE woldc1275 grip1508 gripe1532 graspa1616 the world > health and disease > mental health > be sane [verb (intransitive)] > become sane uncloud1793 sanify1836 to get (or take) a grip on (oneself)1895 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > begin an action or fall to doing something > resolutely or vigorously to sit in1736 strap1823 to get down1826 tackle1841 to buckle down (to)1865 to bite on1904 to wade into1904 to get stuck into1910 to get one's teeth into1935 to sink one's teeth into1935 to get stuck in1938 to get to grips with1947 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. dii Al the gretest Of gomys that grip has..Of baronis and burowis [etc.]. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. b In his grippis and ye gane He wald ourcum yow ilk ane. 1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. v. 40 Gif ȝe lat ga that is in ȝour grippis. 1600 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (Bannatyne Club) II. 283 I cair nocht for all the land I hew in this kingdome, incase I get a grip of Dirleton. 1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. G3 Let these weake Birds..Submit to those that are of grip and might. 1632 S. Rutherford Let. 9 Mar. (1848) xxiii. 49 Loose your grips of them all [fears]. a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 127 Fasten your grips on the other world, and let your grip of this go. 1832 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 9 Nov. (1884) II Promoting a subscription to purchase Abbotsford..out of the grip of creditors. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 139 The clutching old man had lost his grip on life. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xviii. 213 Perhaps no other religion..holds its votaries clutched in such a paralysing grip. 1894 J. Knight D. Garrick i. 7 The grip of poverty is everywhere apparent. 1895 Harper's Nov. 962/1 My dear boy, get a grip on yourself... I won't bite you. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 627 In the grip of malarial fever, on his way to the grave. 1898 J. Caird Univ. Serm. 94 The iron grip of long unresisted habits. 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 174 My throat wouldn't quit trying to laugh, like retching after your stomach is empty. ‘Whoa, now,’ Anse said. ‘Get a grip on yourself.’ 1947 Sci. News 4 7 They [sc. readers] have to translate his article into understandable language before they can get to grips with its actual subject matter. 1950 R. Ackland Before Party in Plays of Year 1949 611 Don't be such a foolish woman... Sit down and take a grip on yourself. 1955 Times 25 July 5/4 What we have now agreed makes it possible to get to grips with the twin problems of the unity of Germany and the security of Europe. 1967 S. Beckett No's Knife 52 Come now, come now, he said, get a grip on yourself, be a man. < as lemmas |
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