单词 | to hold loose |
释义 | > as lemmasto hold loose 1. Loosely; with a loose hold. to sit loose (figurative): to be independent or indifferent; to hold loosely to, not to be enslaved to; occasionally not to weigh heavily upon. †So to hang loose (to). to hold loose: to be indifferent. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)] to put in no chaloir1477 not to care1490 to let the world wag (as it will)c1525 not to care a chip1556 to hang loose (to)1591 (to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632 not to careor matter a farthing1647 not to care a doit1660 (not) to care twopencea1744 not to give a curse (also damn)1763 not to care a dump1821 not to care beans1833 not to care a darn1840 not to give a darn1840 not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861 not to care (also give) a whoop1867 (to care) not a fouter1871 not to care (or give) a toss1876 not to give (also care) a fuck1879 je m'en fiche1889 not to care a dit(e)1907 je m'en fous1918 not to give a shit1918 to pay no nevermind1946 not to give a sod1949 not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960 not to give a stuff1974 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > be independent [verb (intransitive)] to have one's own rulea1393 to be one's own man (also woman, person)a1425 to be one's own master?1510 to stand on one's own bottom1564 to sit loose1591 independa1657 to paddle one's own canoe1828 to go it alone1842 to run one's own show1892 to go one's (own) gait1922 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > be suitable, appropriate, or suit [verb (intransitive)] > suit a person to sit loose1591 to be up (down, in) one's street1903 to be (right) up (also down) one's alley1922 to meet up with1972 1591 H. Smith Pride Nabuchadnezzar 27 How earnest hee was about his dreame and how loose he sat after in his pallace. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. 83 The best counsell I can give you, is that you hang loose to all these outward comforts. 1680 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 281 Theref. get loose, my soul, from these th. & sitt loose to them. 1683 W. Temple Mem. in Wks. (1731) I. 480 I found within a Fortnight after I arriv'd, that he sat very loose with the King his Master. 1706 F. Atterbury Serm. Funeral Mr. Bennet 6 To sit as loose from those Pleasures, and be as moderate in the use of them as they can. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 119. ¶2 The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners, sit more loose upon us. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. xiii. 174 A fluctuating series of governors holding loose, and not in earnest. 1880 Macmillan's Mag. No. 245. 397 To the rubrical theories he simply sat loose. < as lemmas |
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