| 单词 | to ride for dear life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ride (etc.) for dear life c. Often as an attribute of life, heart, heart's blood, etc., as things dear to one. to ride (etc.) for dear life: to ride for one's life, as a thing dear to one; to ride as though life were at stake. Cf. A. 6. ΚΠ 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 61 Since my deare soule was mistris of her choice. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 265 Tho that her Iesses were my deare heart strings. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. viii. 40 Or else this Blow should broach thy dearest Bloud. View more context for this quotation 1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent ii. i. 413 My dear Peace of Mind is lost for ever. 1793 R. Burns Scots, wha Hae in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 708 We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! 1887 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. xxi. 279 Never so happy as when galloping for dear life after a pack of hounds. 1892 Boy's Own Paper Nov. 58/2 The men were working for ‘dear life’ to get her [the cutter] ready for sail. < as lemmas |
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