单词 | to make good one's escape |
释义 | > as lemmasto make good one's escape (b) transitive. To succeed in carrying out (an action, one's purpose) or following (one's course or path); now usually in to make good one's escape. ΚΠ 1651 Faithfull Scout No. 8. 50 Massey made good his retreat. 1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 208 His Men would make good his Attempt. 1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. III. iv. ii. 24 The French fleet had made good their escape. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §129 She might..make her course good to land us at Fowey. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 522 Making good his upward way from his original place at the compositor's frame, to the editorship of a provincial paper. 1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs I. 314 The rebels managed to make good their retreat. 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Apr. 13/4 Two robbers..took $160, all the money in the register, and made good their escape. 1971 A. Pagden tr. H. Cortes Lett. from Mexico iii. 243 They thought that once the Tascaltecans came to cross the water, where the danger was greatest, they would make good their revenge. 2007 M. Hamid Reluctant Fundamentalist (2008) iii. 36 Already they are streaking away, making good their escape. < as lemmas |
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