| 单词 | to put pen to paper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put (also set) pen to paper b. to put (also set) pen to paper: to begin writing; to write. to commit to paper: see commit v. 6a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [verb (intransitive)] > begin writing to put (also set) pen to paper1532 to take up one's pen1621 1532 L. Cox Art or Crafte Rhetoryke sig. F.vii I wolde..that they wold set the penne to the paper. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Thales in Panoplie Epist. 197 Not so muche as putting pen to paper. 1621 T. W. in tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard sig. A 4v My fingers did euen itch to set pen to paper, and to vnclappe so good a Worke. 1725 E. Haywood Bath-intrigues iii. 33 They drank so excessive hard, that my Constitution would not bear it, and I have not, till this moment, been capable of putting Pen to Paper. 1817 T. Lawrence Let. 8 Oct. in D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence (1831) I. 362 The simple act of putting pen to paper is, I am convinced, a much more formidable thing to men than it is to women. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Let. 2 Aug. (1967) III. 965 I do a deal of making up in my head before I put pen to paper. 1928 in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) xiii. 331 I must put pen to paper to ask you what you think of Coolidge's Armistice Speech. 2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 i. 5 His anger..was now at a level where he was calm enough to put pen to paper without perforating the Basildon Bond. < as lemmas |
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