| 单词 | to outstay one's welcome |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto outstay one's welcome 1. transitive. To stay beyond the end or limit of (one's expected or permitted time, an event, etc.); to overstay. Frequently in to outstay one's welcome. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > outstay or overstay outdwell1600 overstand1600 sit1602 to ride out1603 outstaya1616 overstay1641 outsit1661 tarry outa1662 stay1749 to sit out1752 to overstay one's welcome1858 stay1858 a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. iii. 87 If you out-stay the time, vpon mine honor..you die. View more context for this quotation 1638 F. Quarles Hieroglyphikes vi. 24 I have outstaid my patience. 1692 T. Southern Wives Excuse iii. i. 35 There's nothing to be done here; You've outstay'd your time. 1730 C. Coffey Female Parson iii. i. 44 I vow to Gad, Gentlemen, I have outstay'd my Time, I am exquisitely in haste. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 198 Louisa..herself did not long out-stay this adventure. 1776 Blockheads iii. iii. 16 I have outstay'd my day of grace, and find I must follow these ranters a wild goose chase over land and sea. 1823 J. Neal Seventy-six II. xv. 255 I feel like one that has worn out his appointment of three score years and ten, outstayed the sojourn permitted to man. 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady in Atlantic Monthly Nov. 628/2 She had already outstayed her invitation. 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson iii. 34 This, she felt, was the climax. She would not outstay it. 1952 R. Neill Moon in Scorpio xxv. 223 We outstay our welcome here. 2002 Evening Post (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 15 July The judge was told that Williams had outstayed his time in this country and extradition proceedings were in hand. < as lemmas |
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