单词 | to see someone safe |
释义 | > as lemmasto see someone safe P7. to see someone safe: to look after a person, to protect the interests of a person; (also of a thing) to be beneficial to one or ensure one's success.Cf. to see someone all right at all right adv., adj., int., and n. Phrases 2, to see someone right at right adj. and int. Phrases 7c. ΚΠ 1578 W. B. tr. Appian of Alexandria Aunc. Hist. Romanes Warres iii. 169 Diuers of the Captaynes promised him, that if he woulde come to them, they woulde see hym safe [Gk. φυλάξειν]. 1633 W. Rowley All's Lost by Lust i. sig. B1v That shall be our care noble Iulianus, to see her safe, We love Iacinta more then you must know. 1664 Ungrateful Favourite v. ii. 77 Captain, to your care I do commit Maligno: see him safe, as you'll answer't. 1859 Let. 14 Apr. in S. F. Tower In Memoriam: Scilly & its Emperor (1873) 43 I have a certain phalanx of friends who will see me safe if possible. 1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae xii. 328 I will see you safe, if you be innocent. 1934 G. C. Faber Publisher Speaking (1935) i. 28 There are occasions when it is reasonable for a bookseller to ask that the publisher shall ‘see him safe’. 1962 M. Bonham-Carter in M. Asquith Autobiogr. Introd. p. xviii Acting on the assumption that his partners would see him safe.., he made out a cheque for £100,000 in his own name. 1992 Guardian 7 Apr. 20/1 The service industries, the banks and the Barlow Clowes, the pizza parlours and the estate agencies would see us safe. 2017 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Apr. (Sport section) 6 Willett arrived on the 18th thinking a birdie would definitely see him safe, but he blasted it into the trees. < as lemmas |
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