单词 | to pull up by the roots |
释义 | > as lemmasto pull (also cut, etc.) up by the roots a. In phrases denoting the complete and thorough destruction or eradication of something, as to pull (also cut, etc.) up by the roots. Cf. to the root (also roots) at Phrases 6. ΚΠ c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 118 (MED) Þai þat ȝiuen stedfastlich her hertes & ben roted in erþelich þinges shullen ben pulled vp by þe rotes & cast in to þe fyre to brenne. a1400 tr. R. Rolle Oleum Effusum (Harl.) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 188 (MED) Þis name Ihesu..draghes vpe be þo rotes vices. a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 1213 (MED) If that thei talk or mote Of werre, and reyse roore, vp by the roote Hit shal be pulde with myghti exercise Of werreourys. 1517 R. Fox tr. St. Benedict Rule xxxiii. sig. Ei Principally and before all other vices, this vice of proprietie must be cut out of the monastery by the roote. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xciijv Wherby these newe spronge vp sectes maye be plucked vp by the rotes. 1640–1 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1721) I. iii. 187 I wonder not at all..that they would have them [sc. Bishops] up by the Roots. 1781 W. Cowper Truth 574 Since the dear hour that..cut up all my follies by the root. 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 14 This argument was quite cut up by the roots by the determination of the House of Lords. 1943 M. Millar Wall of Eyes xiii. 176 I should just leave and let your hoodlums tear up the office by the roots. 1996 R. Gosden Cheating Time 6 Everyone is comfortable with the efforts to prune back the effects of the aging process, but fewer people applaud attempts to pull it up by the roots. < as lemmas |
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