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单词 to make good, bad, etc weather of it
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to make good, bad, etc. weather of it
c. Nautical. Of a ship, to make good, bad, etc. weather of it: to behave well or ill in a storm.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > sustain a storm or danger
live1589
ridea1649
to make good, bad, etc. weather of it1669
busk1713
to busk it out1744
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 17 We make foul weather.
1781 Naval Chron. 11 287 The Ship makes a very good weather of it.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 86 The ship making very bad weather and shipping large quantities of water.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Make bad weather, To. A ship rolling, pitching, or leaking violently in a gale.
1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. The sea was..not so heavy but that in my judgment a twenty-ton yacht would have made excellent weather of it.
figurative.1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand i. xiii. §2 The feckless and muddle-headed, making heavy weather of the simplest tasks.
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