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单词 to know the old dance
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to know the old dance
5. figurative. Course of action; mode of procedure, play, game. to know the old dance: cf. French ‘elle sçait assez de la vieille danse, she knowes well enough what belongs to the Game’ (Cotgrave).
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the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > [noun]
thingOE
processa1325
fare1340
dancea1352
passage1569
play1581
procedure1590
carriage1609
conduct1706
démarche1721
affair1797
proceeding1801
the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > (a) course of conduct or action
wayeOE
pathOE
waya1225
tracea1300
line13..
dancea1352
tenor1398
featc1420
faction1447
rink?a1500
footpath1535
trade1536
vein1549
tract1575
course1582
road1600
country dance1613
track1638
steeragea1641
rhumb1666
tack1675
conduct1706
walk1755
wheel-way1829
a1352 L. Minot Poems i. 66 At Donde now es done þaire daunce, And wend þai most anoþer way.
a1352 L. Minot Poems v. 14 Sare it þam smerted þat ferd out of France, Þare lered Inglis men þam a new daunce.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 478 Of remedies of loue she knew per chaunce For she koude of that art the olde daunce.
1423 Kingis Quair clxxxv Tham that ar noght entrit inne The dance of lufe.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 86 God for his merci and pitee kepe Ynglond, that he come not into lijk daunce.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 53/1 The lord Stanley and he had departed with diuerse other lordes, and broken all the daunce.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. xv. 200 The Emperour..troubled, at this too long, and too bloody dance.
1733 Walpole in Morley Life (1889) viii. 174 This dance..will no further go. I meant well, but..the Act could not be carried into execution without an armed force.
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