单词 | to go partners |
释义 | > as lemmasto go partners 8. to go partners: to become friends or associates (with a person or thing); to form a partnership; (in later use also) to share the profits or rewards of an undertaking. Also †to go in partner. Cf. go v. 35d. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or be companions [verb (intransitive)] accompany?1490 assist1553 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 to go partners1716 to draw up1723 to shake together1861 to pal up (also around, out, etc.)1889 1716 B. Griffin Humours of Purgatory ii. ii. 37 Darius and he [sc. Alexander the Great] go Partners here [i.e. in Purgatory]. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. iv. 44 He goes in partner with C. D., a scarlet-dyer, called a bow-dyer, at Wandsworth. 1795 S. T. Coleridge Let. 19 Jan. (1956) I. 150 Some 5 men going partners together. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vi. 54 Isabella Wardle and Mr. Trundle ‘went partners’. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. vi. 76 If you can help me to trap Lieutenant Hale, Miss Dixon, we'll go partners in the reward. 1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country iii. xxii. 360 I want to go partners. 1973 R. Travers Murder in Blue Mountains ii. 13 His carefully written advertisement, offering to go partners on equal shares in a prospecting trip, was at first placed in the evening paper. 2003 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 15 Mar. (Weekend section) 6 He went partners with a high-rolling drug importer named Tony Tucker. < as lemmas |
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