| 单词 | to put out a person's light |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put out (also quench) a person's light(s) a. to put out (also quench) a person's light(s): to kill a person. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (intransitive)] to shed blood?a1100 to let blood?c1225 to be (a person's) priesta1450 shortena1535 kill1535 to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568 to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels1587 to make dice of (a person's) bones1591 to put out (also quench) a person's light(s)1599 account1848 to fix1875 1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 87 But lastly, Time perhaps at last hath power To spend her [sc. the soul's] liuely powers, and quench her light. 1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Maides Trag. iv. sig. G4v Evad. You will not murther me. Mel. No, tis a iustice and a noble one, To put the light out of such base offenders. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 112 Quench thou his light, Destruction dark! 1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 152 The sick Portyghee watched his chance..ate up nearly a quarter of a bar'l of bread before the old man caught him, and he had more than two notions to put his lights out. 1891 Star 10 Feb. 3/6 He had been heard to say, ‘I should like to put her light out,’ and had fired at her bed-room window. 1999 J. Boyle Hero of Underworld 185 For this kid, one pill too many, popped when the feeling was good, put out his lights—permanently. < as lemmas |
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