| 单词 | to run like the wind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run like the wind like the wind: very quickly, with great haste. Frequently in to run like the wind. ΚΠ 1583 R. P. tr. P. de la Sierra Second Pt. Myrror of Knighthood f. 136v He spurred his Cornerino with great furie, that he made him runne like the winde. 1652 tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote (new ed.) x. f. 154v At one spring shee hath leapt over the crupper, and without spurs makes the Hackney runne like a Musk-Cat, and her Damzels come not short of her; for they flie like the winde. 1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. 62 Away he run, like the Wind, guessing, as we suppos'd that something was catch'd in the Trap. 1822 T. L. Beddoes in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. (1823) Dec. 727 Ride like the wind, Fetch him the aid of medicine. 1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh xi We went like the wind over the hollows in the snow;—the driver called them ‘thank-you-ma'ams’, because they made everybody bow. 1925 Amer. Speech 1 149/2 A mustang, when startled, erects his tail in a sudden, quick gesture and runs like the wind. 1993 A. Higgins Lions of Grunewald iii. 25 Parked not far away was her wasp-yellow Karman Ghia which Lore drove like the wind down the Kurfüsterndamm to an all-night bar. 2007 Independent 12 May (Mag.) 39/1 I desperately wanted to..climb on board a sleek machine and fly like the wind. < as lemmas |
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