| 单词 | to saddle and bridle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto saddle and bridle 4. transitive. To subject to control, to restrain; to harness. Chiefly in extended metaphor as, to saddle and bridle. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > bring under control temec897 subdue1483 subjugate?1518 to hold or have in leash1564 school1579 to saddle and bridle1646 to grab (also take) by the balls1934 1646 H. Parker Irish Massacre 3 At other times and most constantly it [sc. Popery] saddles and bridles the people for both Priests and Princes satisfaction. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 383 He never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. 1861 H. Martineau Let. 25 Nov. in Autobiogr. (1877) 512 It is inconceivable that..a handful of monopolists will be permitted to saddle and bridle the industrial majority. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 133 The cover [of the kettle] was chattering with the escaping steam, which had thus vainly begged of all men to be saddled and bridled, till James Watt one day happened to overhear it. 1876 Appleton's Jrnl. 20 May 651/1 A vague prescience hinted of a shapeless doom beyond the purple mystery, which had saddled and harnessed its splendors for my service. 1893 Electr. Engineer 11 309 They are expected to undertake original researches, and to push our knowledge in certain directions far beyond anything that can at once be saddled and harnessed by the engineer. 1929 Music & Lett. 10 324 Writing is only thinking saddled and bridled and ready for a good gallop. 1949 New Times (Moscow) 3 Aug. 28/2 It made it its aim to saddle and bridle the workers' movement, to prevent it from developing along revolutionary, Marxist lines. < as lemmas |
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