单词 | to hold, keep a or one's seat |
释义 | > as lemmasto hold, keep a or one's seat P1. to hold, keep a or one's seat: to remain seated, to keep from falling; also, to retain one's position as a Member of Parliament. Similarly, to lose one's seat. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief misfareOE miswendOE misferec1275 misspeeda1387 miscarryc1387 mischieve?a1400 to catch copper1530 to lose one's seatc1540 mischief1598 to bu(r)st one's boiler1824 to come to grief1850 to come (also go) a mucker1851 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 mucker1862 to go or be up the flume1865 to come undone1899 to play smash1903 to come to a sticky end1904 to come unstuck1911 the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > remain as opposed to go > remain seated to hold, keep a or one's seatc1540 perside1656 society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [verb (intransitive)] > fail to be re-elected to lose one's seat1881 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7409 Than Achilles..Al to hurlet the helme of þe high prinse; But hym seluyn was safe, & his seate helde. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 96 Whiles memory holds a seate In this distracted globe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 37 Nor neuer Hidra-headed Wilfulnesse So soone did loose his Seat. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 53 Sit worthy Friends:..Pray you keepe Seat. View more context for this quotation 1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 66 The Quack being no longer able to keep his Seat [on horseback] falls headlong. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 118 Part [of the riders] reel'd but kept their seats. 1881 W. E. Gladstone Speech at Leeds 7 Oct. in Times 8 Oct. 6/3 I never was called upon..to exercise an option between Leeds and Mid Lothian. My seat for both was lost by my acceptance of office. < as lemmas |
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