| 单词 | to make a saving game of it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a saving game of it d. †to make a saving game of: to make good what one has lost in (a particular set of circumstances) in the end; to salvage (a situation). Chiefly in to make a saving game of it. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > recovery from misfortune, error, etc. > [verb (transitive)] overcomea1225 recoverc1330 overputa1382 overpassa1387 passa1500 digest1577 to put over1593 outwear1598 overseta1600 to make a saving game of it1600 repassa1631 to get over ——1662 overgeta1729 overcast1788 overa1800 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. 612 Semblably the Carthaginians, as they lost Capua, so they woon Tarentum, and made a saving game of it. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 53 The Commons..thought themselves worsted, should he now at last make a saving game of it. a1776 D. Hume Dialogues Nat. Relig. (1779) xii. 145 The utmost a wise magistrate can propose with regard to popular religions, is, as far as possible, to make a saving game of it, and to prevent their pernicious consequences with regard to society. a1872 J. Poole Wife's Stratagem (1884) iii. i. 15/2 All this is the work of my own precious industry... How shall I make a saving game of this? 1925 C. W. Hendel Stud. Philos. David Hume xiii. 393 The wise statesman who is obliged to have dealings with popular religion only tries to make ‘a saving game of it’, so far as society is concerned, by dissociating the authority of the government from that of the ecclesiastical institution. < as lemmas |
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