| 单词 | to rap on the knuckles |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers) to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers) and variants: to punish with a rap on the fingers, knuckles, etc. Frequently figurative: to reprimand, to criticize. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] threac897 tighta1000 beswinkc1175 punisha1325 chastise1362 paina1375 justifya1393 wage1412 reformc1450 chasten1526 thwart over thumba1529 chastifyc1540 amerce?1577 follow1579 to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers)1584 finea1616 mulcta1620 fita1625 vindicate1632 trounce1657 reward1714 tawse1790 sort1815 to let (a person) have it1823 visit1836 to catch or get Jesse1839 to give, get goss1840 to have ita1848 to take (a person) to the woodshed1882 to give (one) snuff1890 soak1892 give1906 to weigh off1925 to tear down1938 zap1961 slap1968 society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > summarily or smartly to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers)1584 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] reprovec1330 sniba1400 reprehend?a1439 expostulate1574 to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers)1584 give it1594 reprimand1681 to pin a person's ears back1861 yell1886 to jump down a person's throat1916 to chew (a person's) ass1946 to slap (a person) down1960 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiii. xxiii. 324 How to rap a wag vpon the knuckles. 1634 Hocus Pocus Junior sig. F When hee offereth to take it, you may rap him on the fingers with a knife. 1682 J. Flavell Righteous Man's Refuge in Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) 257 Every objection with which he will rap thy fingers. 1723 Love-lett. between Late Nobleman & Mr. Wilson 47 His Lordship, who had a Spirit above being surpriz'd with Fear, push'd it by with as much Contempt, as if she had rapt his Knuckles with her Fan. 1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 78 Some who did not absolutely deserve that appellation, he has rapped over the knuckles. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 129 When the Master of the Ceremonies offered to hand her into the chair, she rapped him over the knuckles with her fan. 1824 T. De Quincey Falsification Hist. Eng. in London Mag. Dec. 631/1 If that bishop were not dead, I would here take the liberty of rapping his knuckles. 1861 Littell's Living Age 7 Sept. 619/2 ‘Presence-of-mind Jackson’ assuring his own safety by rapping the fingers of his drowning friend. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xvi. 255 You disappoint him, and you rap him over the knuckles. 1930 E. Waugh Labels iii. 65 He lunged out with a spanner and rapped an old man on the knuckles who was trying to sell us a fly-whisk. 1975 J. Rosenthal Evacuees in Bar Mitzvah Boy & Other Television Plays (1987) 134 (stage direct.) She raps his knuckles. 1993 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 25 Apr. b3 Why not rather point to the source of their frustration and rap the fingers of those arrogant people in our administration? 2006 Daily Mail 4 Jan. 62/1 Barely a day passes without some part of the financial services industry..being rapped across the knuckles for failing consumers. < as lemmas |
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