| 单词 | to let matters fall as they may |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto let matters (also things, etc.) fall as they may (also will, etc.) 55. intransitive. To turn out in a particular way, have a particular result; (with to or in) to result or eventuate in something specified. Cf. to fall out 5b at Phrasal verbs 1. Later chiefly in to let matters (also things, etc.) fall as they may (also will, etc.).In quot. 1633: spec. (of the weather) to turn out in a particular way. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > result [verb (intransitive)] > turn out goOE farec1230 to come to proofc1330 shape1338 afarec1380 achievea1393 falla1398 sort1477 succeed1541 lucka1547 to fall out1556 redound1586 to come off1590 light1612 takea1625 result1626 issue1665 to turn out1731 eventuate1787 to roll out1801 to come away1823 to work out1839 pan1865 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [verb (intransitive)] fall1633 to get out1852 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxxv. 1082 Drunkenhede falleþ ofte in manslauþe and spousebrekyng [L. incidunt enim ebriosi in homicidia, adulteria]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 29058 Þat þi fast to saul fode mai falle. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. l. 47 (MED) Felyce hir fayrnesse fel hir al to sklaundre. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 137 All our fare & our fortune hath fallyn to þe best. 1568 G. Turberville tr. D. Mancinus Plaine Path to Perfect Vertue sig. A.vv In doubtfull causes see thou seeke the trouth of either part, That howsoere the matter fall, thou mayst auoide the smart. 1611 Bible (King James) Ruth iii. 18 Sit still..vntill thou know how the matter will fall . View more context for this quotation 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 137 A silly flie, That live or die According as the weather falls. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 211 Let the dispute about Comedy and Susarion fall as it will. 1886 Longman's Mag. July 257 They adopt such a combination of ideas about events which seem fortuitous that the kind of evidence they obtain must have been obtained, let events fall as they may. 1909 E. M. Lane Katrine xxiii. 237 I like books where things fall as they should rather than as they do. 1954 Daily Independent (Kannapolis, N. Carolina) 19 June 1/2 I expect to get out there and take the lead and let things fall as they may after that. 2013 Daily Gleaner (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 13 Sept. c2 The wise move at this time would be to not push too hard and to let matters fall as they may. < as lemmas |
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