单词 | to make one's best way |
释义 | > as lemmasto make one's best way (c) to make the best of one's way (also †to make one's best way): to go as quickly as one can. Formerly also: †to decamp (obsolete). Chiefly with adverb or preposition expressing direction. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with urgent speed > go as quickly as one can to make one's best way1579 to make the best of one's way1675 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 847 They made their best way [Fr. ilz entendirent] to saue them selues and their citie . 1675 W. Okeley Eben-Ezer i. 4 Whether to stay and speak with them, or to make the best of our way. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 4 The next Day we again set Sail, and made the best of our way 'till we were forc'd, by contrary Winds, into St. Remo. 1716 London Gaz. No. 5450/2 Captain Vernon was ordered..to make the best of his Way to Sheerness. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xv. 101 The Thief..without any Ceremony, stepped into the Street, and made the best of his Way . View more context for this quotation 1797 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 877/1 I shall make the best of my way with them to the Nore. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxiii. 219 With that they parted; Mr. Swiveller to make the best of his way home and sleep himself sober; and Quilp [etc.]. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. vii. iv. 131 Coningsby bade his friend farewell till the morrow, and made his best way to the Castle. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. vii. 154 The two brothers made the best of their way towards Bristol. 1906 Times 24 Nov. 3/4 St. Vincent's later orders..instructed him..to make the best of his way to Gibraltar and Cadiz. 2003 D. Cordingly Billy Ruffian 63 As they headed back from Ushant at the end of September, Lord Howe again made the signal for each ship to make the best of her way into Torbay. < as lemmas |
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