| 单词 | to let daylight through |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto let (also knock, put, etc.) daylight through (or into) P3. slang. to let (also knock, put, etc.) daylight through (or into): to put a hole into; to wound with a knife, sword, bullet, etc.; to stab or shoot, often fatally. Now archaic. ΚΠ 1758 Mem. Celebrated Miss Fanny M—— I. vi. 53 The officer descended first, and brandishing his sword, made several lounges, crying, ‘Here I have the scoundrel;—there I shew day-light through the rascal.’ 1793 A. Young Example of France (ed. 3) 172 In the language of the streets, day-light is let into him. 1841 Punch 12 Sept. 101/2 With the facetious intention of ‘letting daylight into the wittling department’ of the pot-boy of the ‘Ram and Radish’. 1881 Punch 17 Sept. 124/1 Ready at the call of duty to frame a new programme or knock daylight into an old one. 1898 W. A. Keesy War as viewed from Ranks viii. 50 You son of ——!.. Clear out with you or I'll put day light through you! 1916 N. Kussy Abyss v. 143 If you don't like it I'll punch daylight through your putty-faced mug. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 314 The Molly Maguires looking for him to let daylight through him. 1976 Daily Capital News (Jefferson City, Missouri) 18 June 4/1 If I had a gun handy I would let daylight through him. < as lemmas |
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