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单词 to help a dog over a stile
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to help a (lame) dog over a stile
P5. to help a (lame) dog over a stile: to come to the aid of someone in need.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > aid, help, or assist [verb (transitive)]
helpc897
filsteOE
filsenc1175
gengc1175
succourc1250
ease1330
to do succourc1374
favour1393
underset1398
supply1428
aid1450
behelp1481
adminiculate?1532
subleve1542
to help a (lame) dog over a stile1546
adjuvate1553
to stand at ——1563
assista1578
opitulate1582
stead1582
bestead1591
help out (also through)1600
serve1629
facilitate1640
auxiliate1656
juvate1708
gammon1753
lame duck1963
piggyback1968
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. E As good a dede, As it is to helpe a dogge ouer a style.
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iii. §33 I once knew a man out of curtesie, help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requitall bit him by the fingers.
1705 J. Browne Secret Hist. Queen Zarah 49 He may live to help a lame Dog over a Stile yet.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. vii. 197 ‘I can..help a lame dog over a stile’—(which was Mark's phrase for doing a generous thing).
1910 W. J. Locke Simon xviii Now and again one does help a lame dog over a stile which bucks one up, you know.
2006 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 15 Dec. 15 A boy said to me: ‘Lend me 20p, I want to phone my mum.’ I am always willing to help a lame dog over a stile, and so I got my mobile phone out.
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