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单词 to pester the life out of
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to pester the life (also soul, dickens, etc.) out of
c. transitive. to pester the life (also soul, dickens, etc.) out of = to plague the life out of at plague v. 2b.
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1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlviii. 431 You pester my poor old life out to get you into the world. You won't be able to hold your own there, you silly little fool.
1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 767/1 They say that since he's spent Sam Stover's, that owned it, pesterin' the life almost out of him tryin' to git him to sell.
1891 T. De W. Talmage Night Scenes City Life xi. 161 His seven hundred wives almost pestered the life out of him!
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 719 Wouldnt that afflict you of course all the poking and rooting and ploughing he had up in me now what am I to do Friday Saturday Sunday wouldnt that pester the soul out of a body unless he likes it some men do.
1976 Times 2 Jan. 10/6 Philip Henry didn't so much walk with God as pester the life out of Him.
2002 Indianapolis Star (Nexis) 26 Dec. 1 e The streets of London were filled with panhandlers, pretending to be tradesmen..and pestering the Dickens out of people.
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