| 单词 | to go over the top |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go over the top 1. In the First World War (1914–18): over the parapet of a trench and into battle; usually in to go over the top. Now historical or in extended use.ⓘ ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)] to lay ona1225 assailc1325 sailc1330 assemblea1375 to fall inc1384 to fall ona1387 givec1430 brunt1440 to set (all) on sevenc1440 to ding on1487 to fall down1534 offend1540 to go on1553 to give on?1611 to let fly1611 strikea1616 insult1638 to set on1670 aggress1708 to carry the war into the enemy's camp1791 hop over1929 1915 First Eastern Gen. Hosp. Gaz. 6 July 120 Then the Captain gave the order to charge, at the same time mounting the parapet, and over the top we went, the Captain shouting ‘Come on.’ 1916 War Illustr. 9 Sept. 80/1 Some fellows asked our captain when we were going over the top. ?1917 L. Boynton in P. Robbins Maude Adams (1956) xiii. 187 Maude alone never seemed lacking in the vitality, the gaiety, the enthusiasm required to set the pace and carry the play and inspire in everyone the spirit to go over the top six evenings and two matinées a week. 1923 Publishers' Circular 24 Nov. 703/2 If Canada, metaphorically speaking, ‘goes over the top’, it will be..against the wishes of her own authors and publishers. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song iii. vii. 267 To-morrow was Jon's last sitting, and she was going ‘over the top!’ All the careful possessing of her soul these two months since she had danced with him..would by this time to-morrow be ended. 1962 Listener 22 Mar. 529/1 The BBC needs to be braver and sometimes is. So let there be a faint hurrah as Auntie goes over the top. 1971 S. Hill Strange Meeting 120 Armstrong went over the top with the first wave and was hit almost at once. 1992 Independent 29 Oct. 34/2 As one hooly-footsoldier says of the England manager: ‘Taylor? I wouldn't follow him over the top, if you know what I mean.’ 2013 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Nov. c3 120,000 British soldiers went ‘over the top’, beginning at 7:30 a.m. The operation immediately went disastrously wrong. to go over the top 2. colloquial. Beyond reasonable or acceptable limits; to an excessive or exaggerated degree; too far; usually in to go over the top. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adverb] egregiously1553 hyperbolically1555 overreachingly1571 hyperbolicly1596 overlashinglya1613 superlativelyc1615 exaggerately1646 theatrically1647 fulsomely1657 fancifully1801 exaggeratedly1854 exaggeratively1856 exaggeratingly1858 over the top1935 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > excessively [phrase] > excessively or immoderately att hofelæsc1175 with unskillc1220 above (also beyond) the moonc1300 out of score1303 beyond (also above, over, without) measurea1375 out of (all) measurea1375 beyond measure1526 above (also beyond) the nock1530 out of (also without) all cry1565 out of all hoa1592 over the top1935 1935 L. Steffens Let. 10 Sept. (1938) II. 1007 I had come to regard the New Capitalism as an experiment till, in 1929, the whole thing went over the top and slid down to an utter collapse. 1968 C. Watson Charity ends at Home x. 129 For instance, you said at our first interview that your wife got so worked up about some things that she was in danger of going ‘over the top’, as you put it. 1974 Times 6 Mar. 2/8 We agreed to give every possible support to the Labour Government, including not going over the top with wage claims. 2011 Canwest News Service (Nexis) 23 Nov. Everything in Veiller's plot that was oh so suspenseful back in 1916 is sent way over the top. < as lemmas |
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