| 单词 | to pay off old scores |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pay off old scores b. transitive. To avenge (an insult, wrong, etc.); to settle (a grudge). Chiefly in to pay off old scores and variants (cf. score n. 11b). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > execute (vengeance) [verb (transitive)] > avenge (an injury or injured person) wreakc825 awreak1048 righta1275 wrackc1275 wrakec1275 venge1303 bewreakc1325 avenge1377 hevena1400 sella1400 revengec1425 countervenge1523 wrecka1593 redeem1598 vindicate1623 to pay off1749 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. vi. 357 I don't question but he'll pay off some old Scores, upon my Account. View more context for this quotation 1815 J. H. Payne Trial without Jury iii. ii, in America's Lost Plays (1940) V. 53 What, you'll have to pay off your old scores at last, will ye? 1888 J. Hawthorne Tragic Myst. iii To pay off some grudge. 1918 L. Strachey Eminent Victorians 67 The old scores, they found, were not to be paid off, but to be wiped out. 1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo ii. 53 There is no such thing as a free lunch, they told themselves. A few old scores were paid off, of course, but on the whole they remained distinctly lukewarm about the whole project. < as lemmas |
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