| 单词 | to rear its head | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rear its (ugly) head  e.  transitive. figurative.  to rear its (ugly) headand variants: to make an unwelcome appearance. See also raise v.1 Phrases 8. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > 			[verb (intransitive)]		 > make an unwelcome appearance to come on1592 to raise its (ugly) head1683 to rear its (ugly) head1771 1771    O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. IV. xliii. 199  				The bishops were..so ardent in pursuit of temporal advantages, that every vice was rearing its head without controul. 1793    S. Horsley Serm. 5  				A new form of Infidelity of late hath reared its hideous head. 1841    A. Lord Luther  iii. 169  				Carnage triumphant rears its ghastly head, And fell destruction riots o'er the dead! 1844    S. Smiles Hist. Irel. xxv. 256  				The evil genius of monopoly now reared its ugly head in the land. 1857    A. Trollope Barchester Towers II. viii. 124  				Rebellion had already reared her hideous head within the [bishop's] palace. 1946    K. Tennant Lost Haven 		(1947)	 vii. 96  				Another problem reared its ugly head. 1966    B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 21  				Scandal of even the mildest type failed to rear its head. 1997    Frank 13 Feb. 26/2  				We're committed to truncheoning down opposition wherever it may rear its ugly head. 2005    R. G. Neuhauser Cosmic Deity 243  				Clearly, we might think, evil was rearing its nasty head. < as lemmas | 
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