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单词 to kick up the heel
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to kick up the heel
(a) To offer resistance or opposition to something; to lash out. Also to kick up the heel. Obsolete.
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1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 66 We ought not to kicke upp the heele, as repining to live in that state, whereunto by birth we were ordeined.
1614 J. Day Dyall 157 An Adversary, who had somtimes beene his familiar friend, and afterwards kickt vp the heele against him.
1681 News from Doctor's Commons 2 Some [men] are grown so wonderful light and wanton, that they kick up their Heels at all Correction.
1891 E. B. Biggar Anecdotal Life Sir John Macdonald 116 Why did you kick up your heels so on the Confederation question? Have you gone over to the enemy?
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