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单词 to give good words
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to give good words
2. An expression of approval, support, or esteem for a person or thing; spec. recommendation of a person to another's favour or for a job, position, etc. Frequently in to give good words, to put in a good word (for) (see to put in 6a at put v. Phrasal verbs 1), to say a good word for (also about).
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?a1300 Iacob & Iosep (Bodl.) (1916) l. 192 (MED) Of pore & of riche he haþ well god word.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1066 (MED) Alle gauen god word to gomes þat hem plesede.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 1081 And frendes loue..shal ye han of me And my good word.
a1500 Thewis Gud Women (Cambr. Kk.1.5) l. 101 in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 88 Gyf folk gud word be-hynd þar bak.
1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. C.iiiiv Some good worde that I may saye To borowe mannes soule from blame.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. i. sig. Niv [Thou] dyddest speke a good word for me, and dydst tourne away..the..strokes from me.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie W 352 That helpeth one with his good worde at a time, suffragatorius.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. ii. 214 You gaue good words the other day of a Bay Courser I rod on. View more context for this quotation
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Pref. p. xlviii The Good Word, that Mr. Grævius has been pleas'd publicly to give me.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 71 I know I shall always have your good Word.
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. lxxxii. 168 The Dowager spoke a good word..and Sir Sidney has settled the whole business to the satisfaction of all parties.
1852 C. B. Mansfield Paraguay, Brazil, & Plate (1856) 364 My friend M. Cerruti..has diplomatic business here; and with his good words..I hope to be in clover.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 78 It was..not in the character of tenant that the Czar was likely to gain the good word of civilised men.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Jan. 1/2 The New..University of London appears to be in that parlous state when no impartial person can be found to say a good word for it.
1937 R. Byron Road to Oxiana v. 289 In that case, one of the resident Indian merchants will be summoned, who may put in a good word for us.
1994 I. Botham My Autobiogr. 365 [He] rarely had a good word to say about anyone who did not play cricket ‘in my day’.
2007 Daily Express (Nexis) 31 Oct. 14 Star Trek legend Patrick Stewart is hoping to get Doctor Who David Tennant to put in a good word about a gueststarring role.
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