英语词汇“to nail one's colours to the mast”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. to nail one's colours (also flag) to the mast (also masthead) and variants: to declare one's opinions or beliefs openly; to stick to or be committed to a plan, opinion, policy, etc. [Apparently originally with allusion to a real practice of nailing a flag or ensign to the mast of a ship, after damage during battle has resulted in the ship's colours no longer being clearly displayed, which might otherwise be interpreted as a signal of surrender. Compare quot. 1800, and see also Mariner's Mirror 72 (1986) 212–3 for an account of an incident which apparently occurred during the Battle of Camperdown in 1797 and which was celebrated in a lithograph later in the same year.]

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the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > be constant or steadfast [verb (intransitive)]

standeOE

cleavec1275

to stand stiffa1290

stick1447

to stand or stick to one's tackling1529

to stand in this1538

to set down (the or one's) staff1584

to stand one's ground1600

to stand to one's pan pudding1647

to maintain one's ground1736

to nail one's colours (also flag) to the mast (also masthead)1808

to stay put1843

to stand firm1856

to sit tight1890

to keep the flag flying1914

to dig in one's toes1933

to hold the line1956

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > thoughts or feelings

unbuttonc1325

unbreast1559

unbosom1598

unbowel1649

eccentricate1708

to nail one's colours (also flag) to the mast (also masthead)1808

disbosom1868

unzip1939

uncap1980

1800 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 219 (note) Half past 6, shot away the main and mizen-masts: saw a man nail the French ensign to the stump of the mizen-mast.]

1808 W. Scott Marmion i. Introd. 11 Record, that Fox a Briton died!..Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colours to the mast.

1844 Sir R. Peel in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxiii. 15 I never heard him make a speech in the course of which he did not nail, unnail, renail, and unnail again his colours.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Nov. 11/1 He hastened..to nail his colours to the compromise of 1870.

1898 G. B. Shaw Let. 5 Jan. (1972) II. 7 He..does not deny his faiths, and will nail his atheism & socialism to the masthead incorruptibly enough.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. iv. 58 To nail some elaborate blue-print of international organization to our masthead.

1989 Great Outdoors Sept. 27/1 The prince neatly side-stepped nailing his colours to the mast in the national parks debate.

单词	to nail one's colours to the mast
释义	> as lemmas to nail one's colours (also flag) to the mast (also masthead) P1. to nail one's colours (also flag) to the mast (also masthead) and variants: to declare one's opinions or beliefs openly; to stick to or be committed to a plan, opinion, policy, etc. [Apparently originally with allusion to a real practice of nailing a flag or ensign to the mast of a ship, after damage during battle has resulted in the ship's colours no longer being clearly displayed, which might otherwise be interpreted as a signal of surrender. Compare quot. 1800, and see also Mariner's Mirror 72 (1986) 212–3 for an account of an incident which apparently occurred during the Battle of Camperdown in 1797 and which was celebrated in a lithograph later in the same year.] ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > be constant or steadfast [verb (intransitive)] standeOE cleavec1275 to stand stiffa1290 stick1447 to stand or stick to one's tackling1529 to stand in this1538 to set down (the or one's) staff1584 to stand one's ground1600 to stand to one's pan pudding1647 to maintain one's ground1736 to nail one's colours (also flag) to the mast (also masthead)1808 to stay put1843 to stand firm1856 to sit tight1890 to keep the flag flying1914 to dig in one's toes1933 to hold the line1956 society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > thoughts or feelings unbuttonc1325 unbreast1559 unbosom1598 unbowel1649 eccentricate1708 to nail one's colours (also flag) to the mast (also masthead)1808 disbosom1868 unzip1939 uncap1980 1800 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 219 (note) Half past 6, shot away the main and mizen-masts: saw a man nail the French ensign to the stump of the mizen-mast.] 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. Introd. 11 Record, that Fox a Briton died!..Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colours to the mast. 1844 Sir R. Peel in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxiii. 15 I never heard him make a speech in the course of which he did not nail, unnail, renail, and unnail again his colours. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Nov. 11/1 He hastened..to nail his colours to the compromise of 1870. 1898 G. B. Shaw Let. 5 Jan. (1972) II. 7 He..does not deny his faiths, and will nail his atheism & socialism to the masthead incorruptibly enough. 1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. iv. 58 To nail some elaborate blue-print of international organization to our masthead. 1989 Great Outdoors Sept. 27/1 The prince neatly side-stepped nailing his colours to the mast in the national parks debate. extracted from nailv. < as lemmas
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