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单词 to melt one's grease
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to melt one's grease
d. Phrases (chiefly figurative), as to chafe, fret, fry, melt, stew, sweat in one's own grease (cf. fry v.1 3). to melt one's grease: to exhaust one's strength by violent efforts.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] > exhaust one's strength or energy
to break one's back or necka1616
to melt one's grease1645
break1726
to run out of steam1836
to overdo it1853
to peg out1887
the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > be in difficulties or straits > be left in the lurch > to suffer consequences of one's own actions
to chafe, fret, fry, melt, stew, sweat in one's own grease1663
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > be anxious [verb (intransitive)] > be acutely anxious
to be on (the) tenter(s1633
to chafe, fret, fry, melt, stew, sweat in one's own grease1663
to be on (the) tenterhooks1748
to be on heckle pins1850
sweat1963
13.. Coer de L. 4409 Beter it is that we out renne, Thenne as wrehches in house to brenne, And frye inne oure owne gres!
a1569 A. Kingsmill Viewe Mans Estate (1580) viii. 41 Must we needes be still sweating in the greace of our own fleshly wickednesse?
1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. G4v There hee sat fretting in his owne grease.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 65 Till the wicked fire of lust haue melted him in his owne greace.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. xv. 20 The adventrous Earl Henry of Oxford,..was set upon a desperat Work, wher he melted his grease, and so..died.
1663 S. Tuke Adventures of Five Hours i, in Anc. Brit. Drama III. 415/1 There they stew In their own grease till morning.
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 78 Let..the woods and forests blaze away, and the fat soyl of the earth fry in its own grease; these things will not affect us [the rocks and mountains].
?17.. R. Hood & Gold. Arrow in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 224/2 So we'll leave him chafing in his grease.
1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 96 The day was exceedingly hot, and..Rubios's horse was overheated, and as the phrase was, melted his grease.
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