| 单词 | to live high |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto live high d. Richly, luxuriously; to excess. Now chiefly in to live high; cf. to live high on the hog at hog n.1 Phrases 8. Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adverb] unordinatelyc1384 untemperately1398 unmeasurablyc1400 unmannerly?a1425 unmeasurablec1443 inordinatelyc1450 riotously?c1450 immoderately1482 surfeitlyc1503 unsoberlyc1540 dissolutely1561 intemperantly1561 unbridledly1561 hard1569 intemperately1576 ahoit1598 high1602 extravagantly1660 overboard1931 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. ix. sig. I3v If Loue be then thy Obiect, change not life, Liue high, and happie still. View more context for this quotation 1667 S. Pepys Diary 29 July (1974) VIII. 363 Where it seems people do drink high. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 105 When once he's broken, feed him full and high . View more context for this quotation 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. x. 137 'Tis the mode to live high, to spend more than we get. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. v. 103 If you feed a young Horse high, he should have Exercise. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 62 A small dog..not to be fed too high. 1896 Bachelor of Arts 3 18 So he sees the world, wildishly, capriciously, sleeping low and drinking high. 1934 I. Gershwin I knew him When in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 232/1 He's living high in Beverly; Three butlers he employs. 2006 B. Chance Bully iii. 36 She could get thirty cents on the dollar for those checks and she was living high. < as lemmas |
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