| 单词 | to look through the wrong end of the perspective |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto look (also see) through the wrong (also other) end of the perspective ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > judge wrongly [verb (intransitive)] > underestimate or understate to look (also see) through the wrong (also other) end of the perspective1646 diminuate1883 poor-mouth1948 lowball1979 1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III Ded. To looke at other mens actions and memory by the wrong end of the perspective. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 120 The wrong end of the Perspective, which scants their dimensions. 1693 W. Congreve Double-Dealer iv. i, in Wks. (1930) 139 You have looked through the wrong end of the perspective all this while, for nothing has been between us but our fears. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. iv. 158 The Fears of a Lover..are apt to magnify every Favour conferred on a Rival, and to see the little Advances towards themselves through the other End of the Perspective. View more context for this quotation 1773 G. A. Stevens Trip to Portsmouth iv. 41 You look at things through the wrong end of the perspective. 1809 C. Dibdin Lion & Water Wagtail iii. 117 Thus fools, to make their view defective, Take the wrong end of the perspective. < as lemmas |
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