单词 | to rive a person's bonnet |
释义 | > as lemmasto rive a person's bonnet b. to rive a person's bonnet: to excel or surpass a person, esp. one's father. Now archaic and rare.With reference to the notion of splitting the bonnet belonging to the person who has been surpassed, because it has become too small. Cf. rive v.1 9a. ΚΠ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) To rive the bonnet of another, to excel him in whatever respect. a1843 J. Stewart Sketches Sc. Char. (1857) 140 I'm no that sure Gif mony o' the squad can rive his bonnet. 1856 Bradford Observer 28 Aug. 4/3 A nobleman..who offers fair, as the Scotch say, to ‘rive his father's bonnet’. 1884 Dundee Courier & Argus 14 Nov. 7/3 Their only son, when he grew up, proved himself a thorough chip of the old block, and well qualified to rive his father's bonnet. 1902 Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 5/1 Lord Elgin..said that his Royal Highness was ‘doing all he could to rive his father's bonnet’. 1919 Ld. Guthrie Let. 10 Nov. in R. L. Orr Ld. Guthrie (1923) xxiii. 319 [Lord Rosebery said:] ‘I tell you, Guthrie, he will yet rive the bonnet of all you professional orators.’ 2012 K. Ranney Scandalous Scot iii. 36 He winna rive his faither's bunnet. His nurse's voice, speaking from his childhood. He will never fill his father's shoes. < as lemmas |
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