单词 | to make it good on a person's body |
释义 | > as lemmasto make it good on a person's body (b) to make it good on a person's body: to use physical violence to force someone into conceding a point or accepting the truth of one's assertion. ΚΠ 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxi. 196 I shulde make it good on you incontynent that ye haue no right to bere my deuyce. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 54/2 I tel the thei haue so done, & that I will make good on thy body traitour. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. B4 Behold, here stands he that will make it good on thy foure Letters bodie, that thou art a filthy vaine foole. 1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. H3v I..wil make it good on their persons, from pin to pyke. 1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. II. vii. 97 He told him it was true, and that hee would make it good upon his body Traytor that he was. 1690 J. Phillips Secret Hist. Reigns Charles II & James II 85 He was a Chivalier, and better Born than Himself, and would make it Good on Him with his Sword. < as lemmas |
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