单词 | to keep a whole skin |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep a whole skin P6. in (also with) a whole skin: unwounded, uninjured. Frequently in †to sleep in a whole skin, to keep a whole skin: to escape unscathed, to remain uninjured. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > be in state of health [verb (intransitive)] > remain uninjured to sleep in a whole skin1534 the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > free from injury unwoundedOE wholeOE unwemmedc1175 hailc1275 wemlessc1330 sound as a trouta1450 unmaimeda1470 unmaggled1508 unmenyied?a1513 in (also with) a whole skin1534 woundless1579 unmartyred1580 wound-free1609 invulnered1613 fist-free1615 invulneratea1680 unmangled1885 1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 170 I am a conquerour yf I may depart or escape with a hole skynne [L. latere tecto abscedere]. 1543 T. Becon Invect. against Swearing Pref. f. iiiv It is good sleapyng in an whole skynne. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. M3v The foole is crafty inough to sleepe in a whole skin. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxii. xxi. 823 b To enter into no armes at all, to sit still and sleepe in a hole skin. c1643 N. Boteler Dialogues (1929) (modernized text) 38 They propound it to themselves as the safer course to receive their pay in a whole skin. 1644 S. Rutherford Serm. House of Commons 47 Some sell Religion to be free from plundering, others to keep a whole skin, and to go to heaven, as they imagine without losse of bloud. 1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Epidicus iv. viii, in tr. Plautus Comedies 110 Begon in a moment, as you hope to sleep in a whole skin. 1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans ii. 12 The Algerines are a very timerous sort of People, willing to sleep in a whole Skin. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xxi. 193 Honest Hickman may now sleep in a whole skin. 1813 R. Southey March to Moscow x, in Poet. Wks. (1838) VI. 221 He was besides in a very great fright, For a whole skin he liked to be in. 1878 C. H. Spurgeon Metrop. Tabernacle Pulpit XXIII. 563 Others think the Gospel is true: Erasmus feels sure that it is, but Erasmus wants to die in a whole skin. 1897 W. E. Norris Marietta's Marriage xliii We'll assume..that your anxiety to keep a whole skin justified you in taking to your heels. 1904 E. Glasgow Deliverance v. vi. 499 If that young rascal wants to keep a whole skin he'd better stay off this place. 1932 R. Macaulay They were Defeated i. xii. 92 He gets through with it with a whole skin. 2005 L. A. Lawson Gorgon's Mask 11 The child Thomas feared that he would not get out of his predicament with a whole skin. < as lemmas |
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