英语词汇“to roll one's tongue”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1. to roll one's (also the) tongue.

†a. To speak eloquently, flowingly, or at length. Cf. rolling adj. 5a. Obsolete.

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1568 E. Dering Sparing Restraint i. 105 This is a hardy man, that when he hath no reason, yet can roll his tongue so handsomely.

1636 R. Baker tr. Cato Variegatus 4 Many can roule the Tongue; and make it run, But Turne, and make a Stoppe, is hardly done.

1684 T. Creech tr. Plutarch in Morals I. iii. 202 Faith this is a brave man, how excellently he rolls his tongue about nothing.

1834 Evangelical Mag. 1 Feb. 34/1 A wife and venerable matron, otherwise respectable, so completely overcome with strong drink as to roll her stammering tongue in foolishness.

1893 C. M. Depew in T. B. Reed Mod. Eloquence (1900) I. 371 He could roll his tongue in a way that would make the shamrocks turn green with envy. He had that brogue..which gives eloquence to speech.

b. To curl up the sides of one's tongue so that it forms a folded, almost tubular shape.A minority of people are unable to do this, hence the phrase is often found in discussions of heredity and genetics.

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1884 W. A. Stearns Labrador iv. 59 Another similar high note which rounds off the whistle with that peculiar effect so often practised by small boys in trying to roll the tongue.

1942 D. D. Whitney Family Treasures v. 107 (caption) Rolling the tongue. The ability to roll the tongue is shown in both parents..but in only one..of the two sons. Rolling the tongue is a dominant trait and not being able to roll the tongue is a recessive trait.

1942 A. Boucher in J. Merril Beyond Human Ken (1952) 159 Not everybody can change. It's like being able to roll your tongue or wiggle your ears. You can, or you can't; and that's that.

1995 B. Kanner Are you Normal? 9 Can you roll your tongue? Roughly two in three of us can roll our tongues.

P2. to roll back the years: to evoke or recreate a previous time, state, or condition; to make it seem as if no time has passed.

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1782 Brit. Mag. & Rev. Nov. 380 Fond remembrance will roll back the years.

1826 Worcester Mag. & Hist. Jrnl. 1 69 It required no laborious stretch of imagination to..roll back the years between the present period and the age of her glory, the reign of the fourteenth Lewis.

1922 E. P. Oppenheim Evil Shepherd xxxii. 256 If I could roll back the years, if from all my deeds of sin, as the world knows sin, I could cancel one.

1994 Representations 46 114 Titian rolled back the years by a full decade to make this picture commemorative of the career of a man who died in 1538.

2005 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 30 Sept. 31 The Beat are set to roll back the years when they play in Nuneaton next week.

P3. to roll into one: to combine into one person or thing. Cf. sense 23b.

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1797 G. Colman My Night-gown 30 Will was so fat he appeared like a ton;—Or like two single gentlemen roll'd into One.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford x Men will be men. Every mother's son of them wishes to be considered Samson and Solomon rolled into one.

1871 H. R. Haweis Music & Morals 405 Roll all these [instruments] into one, we shall get the first glimmering notion or embryo of a piano.

1879 T. Hardy Let. 26 Mar. (1978) I. 64 It is possible that he & the ancestor of your relative were two different persons who were in India at the same time, & so got rolled into one.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 135/2 He is the Supreme Court and human fate rolled into one.

1995 Independent 9 Nov. (Suppl.) 26/2 Roll all of those [games] into one and you have Fibonacci, a game devised eight years ago, but only now beginning to attract serious interest.

2004 R. Kurson Shadow Divers vi. 133 Dudas was astronaut, mercenary, gladiator, and porpoise all rolled into one.

P4. to roll down to St. Helena and variants: (of a vessel) to advance steadily under a favourable wind, without having to change tack or sail.

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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > sail before the wind

scud1582

spoon1588

spoom1628

to stand down1635

to bear down1671

skid1815

to roll down to St. Helena1834

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 19 You have heard of rolling down from the Cape to St. Helena; almost at all seasons of the year, it blows from the same quarter.

a1861 T. Twining Trav. India (1893) 355 The ship remained under nearly the same sail for many days,..rolling from one side to the other, the wind being directly astern. This is called ‘rolling down to St. Helena’ by the captains of Indiamen.

1872 C. Chapman Voy. Southampton to Cape Town 209 On went the ‘Syria’, rolling down to St. Helena.

P5. to roll up one's sleeves and variants: to apply oneself in earnest to a task; to buckle down; to prepare to engage in a challenge or conflict.

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > resolutely or energetically

to go to it1490

busklea1535

settle1576

to lay on1587

to put in (also get into) one's gearsa1658

to put (occasionally lay, set) one's shoulder to the wheel1678

yark1721

to get going1822

to pitch in1835

to roll up one's sleeves1838

square1849

to clap on1850

to wire in (also away)1864

to dig in1884

hunker1903

tie into1904

to get cracking1937

to get stuck in1938

to get weaving1942

to get it on1954

1838 Amer. Monthly Mag. Apr. 356 We should not roll up our sleeves and prepare to batter his doctrine with all our force of argument.

1863 J. W. Hunnicutt Conspiracy Unveiled ii. xxxv. 400 Roll up your sleeves and pitch in.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 20 If..mankind must go on being mankind, then I am willing to fight, I will roll my sleeves up And start in.

1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? xii. 286 She said it was really something to see him roll up his sleeves with the enthusiasm of a kid just breaking in.

1990 I. Bayley in K. A. Porter Lett. Introd. 2 She rolls up her sleeves for the scrimmage over awarding the Bollingen Prize to Ezra Pound.

P6. U.S. slang. to roll (the, them) bones: to play dice.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (intransitive)]

taveleOE

dicec1440

rifle1590

to shake the elbow1705

jeff1837

to touch ivory1864

to roll (the, them) bones1891

1891 Atlanta Constit. 9 June 1/6 He was a habitue of gambling houses and rolled the bones for very high stakes.

1892 Chicago Tribune 10 Sept. 3/4 The crap games were patronized principally by the colored 'longshoremen, who rolled the ‘bones’ out on the wharf, and called out for ‘little Joe’ and ‘Kans' City seben’ until they could be heard across the river.

1929 H. W. Odum in Amer. Mercury Sept. 49/2 So we sets 'round in circle an' starts rollin' them bones.

1945 L. Saxon et al. Gumbo Ya-Ya vii. 127 Today in the colored sections of the city there are always circles of men ‘rollin' the bones’ playing Indian Dice, which is any game of Craps unsupervised by a syndicate and without a player for the ‘house’.

1995 Sports Illustr. 29 May 25/2 Everyone wants to talk basketball, and he just wants to roll bones until dawn.

P7. Chiefly U.S. to let the good times roll and variants: to participate freely in enjoyable activities or a time of prosperity; to enjoy oneself. Chiefly in imperative.

ΚΠ

1898 Atlanta Constit. 4 Sept. 15/3 The people are cheerful, confidence is abundant, the war is over, so now let the good times roll in upon us.

1925 Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 3 (Libr. of Congr. Copyright Office) 19 iii. 476/1 Let the good times roll; w[ords] and melody Tom Delaney, of U. S.

1946 N.Y. Amsterdam News 28 Dec. 17/1 (heading) Let the good times roll.

1976 A. Murray Stomping Blues (2000) ix. 178 That's all right about all that other carrying on and stuff, I say let the good times roll!

1997 List 19 Dec. 14/1 George Square is the place to let the good times roll, with a programme of upbeat..acts performing..over two stages.

2007 H. Coburn Winners lvi. 352 They felt that talk of the horrors many had seen was not a good dinner subject, so they devoted their time to letting the good times roll.

P8. to roll one's own: to make one's own cigarettes by wrapping paper tightly round loose tobacco. Also figurative: to get by without outside assistance. Cf. sense 33 and roll-your-own adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > make cigarettes

roll1845

to roll one's own1900

1900 Internat. Cycl. XIV. 462 The practice is for the smoker to roll his own, rather than to smoke the manufactured article.

1932 J. D. Carr Poison in Jest xi. 157 He produced papers and tobacco... ‘Good American,’ he announced. ‘I roll my own.’

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Roll one's own,..to do things without outside aid.

1941 N.Y. Times 25 July 14/5 ‘Ghosting’ is routine in public papers in the United States, and has been since our history began... Mr. Roosevelt proved again today that he can roll his own whenever he has the time and the inclination.

1960 J. McNamee Florencia Bay 59 Looks sixty. Thin face. Dark. Looks a little Indian but not our kind of Indian. Rolls his own.

2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 324/1 Johnny Depp whips out of pouch of Bali Shag tobacco, licks a dark-brown Rizla paper, and starts rolling his own.

P9. to roll with the punches and variants: (of a boxer) to move the body, esp. the head, away from the opponent's blows so as to lessen the impact. Now usually figurative: to adapt oneself to adverse circumstances.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > give in

to sky the wipe (or towel)1907

to roll with the punches1910

to pull one's punches1931

to lead with one's chin1949

the world > action or operation > behaviour > adaptability to circumstances > adapt to circumstances [verb (intransitive)]

temporize1555

accommodate1597

localizea1631

to piece in1636

attemper1807

trim1888

adapt1910

reorient1916

adjust1924

to trim one's sails to the wind1928

to roll with the punches1956

1910 Washington Post 28 June 9/4 Johnson would allow his head to roll with each punch, one of his ways of lessening the force of the blows.

1951 J. J. Walsh Boxing Simplified viii. 32 In an actual bout he will not have so much time to roll with the blow.

1956 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy ii. 15 He had mastered the trick of rolling with the punches, rendering himself invisible when a crisis darkened the neighbouring skies.

1963 J. Crosby With Love & Loathing 48 Madison Avenue rolls with the blow; it watches carefully which direction the cookie crumbles.

2009 Retirement Income Reporter (Nexis) Feb. 9 People like him, who have secure jobs and deep-in-the-money mortgages, are rolling with the punches these days.

P10. North American. figurative. to roll up the sidewalks: to cause all entertainment or leisure pursuits to cease (in a location).

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1925 Jrnl. Electr. Workers & Operators 24 524/2 No excitement here; they roll up the sidewalks at 8 o'clock.

1951 Life 3 Sept. 135 (caption) It..lasted until midnight. Afterwards Hospitality Chairman Jimmy Adams..moaned, ‘Now they'll go back to rolling up the sidewalks every night at 10.’

1967 Boston Sunday Globe 23 Apr. a43/1 No longer do they roll up the sidewalks when early Spring arrives.

2001 N.Y. Times 6 May ix. 10/1 (caption) In London, the City no longer rolls up its sidewalks at dusk.

P11. heads will roll and variants: people will be dismissed, forced to resign, or otherwise stripped of power.In allusion to a literal threat of executions made by Adolf Hitler (see quot. 1930). Like the latter, similar earlier expressions usually include a modifier of heads and a prepositional phrase indicating location.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > [phrase] > liability of incurring penalty

under (also on, in, upon) (the) penalty of ——1560

heads will roll1946

society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [phrase] > some will be removed

heads will roll1946

1930 Daily Herald 26 Sept. 1/1 Giving evidence, Hitler declared..‘If our movement is victorious there will be a revolutionary tribunal which will punish the crimes of November 1918. Then decapitated heads will roll in the sand.’]

1946 Billboard 9 Nov. 41/4 Before it's all over more heads will roll.

1961 Time 1 Dec. 77/3 A.M.C. made it clear, too, that more heads would roll if the workers still failed to get the message.

1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 7/2 President Nixon decreed ‘heads will roll’ if ‘petty bureaucrats’ hinder Jaffe's war on narcotics.

2000 K. Charles Cruel Habitations (2001) xi. 195 But there's going to be the most almighty kerfuffle when it all comes out. Fur will fly. Heads may roll.

单词	to roll one's tongue
释义	> as lemmas to roll one's (also the) tongue Phrases P1. to roll one's (also the) tongue. †a. To speak eloquently, flowingly, or at length. Cf. rolling adj. 5a. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1568 E. Dering Sparing Restraint i. 105 This is a hardy man, that when he hath no reason, yet can roll his tongue so handsomely. 1636 R. Baker tr. Cato Variegatus 4 Many can roule the Tongue; and make it run, But Turne, and make a Stoppe, is hardly done. 1684 T. Creech tr. Plutarch in Morals I. iii. 202 Faith this is a brave man, how excellently he rolls his tongue about nothing. 1834 Evangelical Mag. 1 Feb. 34/1 A wife and venerable matron, otherwise respectable, so completely overcome with strong drink as to roll her stammering tongue in foolishness. 1893 C. M. Depew in T. B. Reed Mod. Eloquence (1900) I. 371 He could roll his tongue in a way that would make the shamrocks turn green with envy. He had that brogue..which gives eloquence to speech. b. To curl up the sides of one's tongue so that it forms a folded, almost tubular shape.A minority of people are unable to do this, hence the phrase is often found in discussions of heredity and genetics. ΚΠ 1884 W. A. Stearns Labrador iv. 59 Another similar high note which rounds off the whistle with that peculiar effect so often practised by small boys in trying to roll the tongue. 1942 D. D. Whitney Family Treasures v. 107 (caption) Rolling the tongue. The ability to roll the tongue is shown in both parents..but in only one..of the two sons. Rolling the tongue is a dominant trait and not being able to roll the tongue is a recessive trait. 1942 A. Boucher in J. Merril Beyond Human Ken (1952) 159 Not everybody can change. It's like being able to roll your tongue or wiggle your ears. You can, or you can't; and that's that. 1995 B. Kanner Are you Normal? 9 Can you roll your tongue? Roughly two in three of us can roll our tongues. P2. to roll back the years: to evoke or recreate a previous time, state, or condition; to make it seem as if no time has passed. ΚΠ 1782 Brit. Mag. & Rev. Nov. 380 Fond remembrance will roll back the years. 1826 Worcester Mag. & Hist. Jrnl. 1 69 It required no laborious stretch of imagination to..roll back the years between the present period and the age of her glory, the reign of the fourteenth Lewis. 1922 E. P. Oppenheim Evil Shepherd xxxii. 256 If I could roll back the years, if from all my deeds of sin, as the world knows sin, I could cancel one. 1994 Representations 46 114 Titian rolled back the years by a full decade to make this picture commemorative of the career of a man who died in 1538. 2005 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 30 Sept. 31 The Beat are set to roll back the years when they play in Nuneaton next week. P3. to roll into one: to combine into one person or thing. Cf. sense 23b. ΚΠ 1797 G. Colman My Night-gown 30 Will was so fat he appeared like a ton;—Or like two single gentlemen roll'd into One. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford x Men will be men. Every mother's son of them wishes to be considered Samson and Solomon rolled into one. 1871 H. R. Haweis Music & Morals 405 Roll all these [instruments] into one, we shall get the first glimmering notion or embryo of a piano. 1879 T. Hardy Let. 26 Mar. (1978) I. 64 It is possible that he & the ancestor of your relative were two different persons who were in India at the same time, & so got rolled into one. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 135/2 He is the Supreme Court and human fate rolled into one. 1995 Independent 9 Nov. (Suppl.) 26/2 Roll all of those [games] into one and you have Fibonacci, a game devised eight years ago, but only now beginning to attract serious interest. 2004 R. Kurson Shadow Divers vi. 133 Dudas was astronaut, mercenary, gladiator, and porpoise all rolled into one. P4. to roll down to St. Helena and variants: (of a vessel) to advance steadily under a favourable wind, without having to change tack or sail. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > sail before the wind scud1582 spoon1588 spoom1628 to stand down1635 to bear down1671 skid1815 to roll down to St. Helena1834 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 19 You have heard of rolling down from the Cape to St. Helena; almost at all seasons of the year, it blows from the same quarter. a1861 T. Twining Trav. India (1893) 355 The ship remained under nearly the same sail for many days,..rolling from one side to the other, the wind being directly astern. This is called ‘rolling down to St. Helena’ by the captains of Indiamen. 1872 C. Chapman Voy. Southampton to Cape Town 209 On went the ‘Syria’, rolling down to St. Helena. P5. to roll up one's sleeves and variants: to apply oneself in earnest to a task; to buckle down; to prepare to engage in a challenge or conflict. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > resolutely or energetically to go to it1490 busklea1535 settle1576 to lay on1587 to put in (also get into) one's gearsa1658 to put (occasionally lay, set) one's shoulder to the wheel1678 yark1721 to get going1822 to pitch in1835 to roll up one's sleeves1838 square1849 to clap on1850 to wire in (also away)1864 to dig in1884 hunker1903 tie into1904 to get cracking1937 to get stuck in1938 to get weaving1942 to get it on1954 1838 Amer. Monthly Mag. Apr. 356 We should not roll up our sleeves and prepare to batter his doctrine with all our force of argument. 1863 J. W. Hunnicutt Conspiracy Unveiled ii. xxxv. 400 Roll up your sleeves and pitch in. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 20 If..mankind must go on being mankind, then I am willing to fight, I will roll my sleeves up And start in. 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? xii. 286 She said it was really something to see him roll up his sleeves with the enthusiasm of a kid just breaking in. 1990 I. Bayley in K. A. Porter Lett. Introd. 2 She rolls up her sleeves for the scrimmage over awarding the Bollingen Prize to Ezra Pound. P6. U.S. slang. to roll (the, them) bones: to play dice. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (intransitive)] taveleOE dicec1440 rifle1590 to shake the elbow1705 jeff1837 to touch ivory1864 to roll (the, them) bones1891 1891 Atlanta Constit. 9 June 1/6 He was a habitue of gambling houses and rolled the bones for very high stakes. 1892 Chicago Tribune 10 Sept. 3/4 The crap games were patronized principally by the colored 'longshoremen, who rolled the ‘bones’ out on the wharf, and called out for ‘little Joe’ and ‘Kans' City seben’ until they could be heard across the river. 1929 H. W. Odum in Amer. Mercury Sept. 49/2 So we sets 'round in circle an' starts rollin' them bones. 1945 L. Saxon et al. Gumbo Ya-Ya vii. 127 Today in the colored sections of the city there are always circles of men ‘rollin' the bones’ playing Indian Dice, which is any game of Craps unsupervised by a syndicate and without a player for the ‘house’. 1995 Sports Illustr. 29 May 25/2 Everyone wants to talk basketball, and he just wants to roll bones until dawn. P7. Chiefly U.S. to let the good times roll and variants: to participate freely in enjoyable activities or a time of prosperity; to enjoy oneself. Chiefly in imperative. ΚΠ 1898 Atlanta Constit. 4 Sept. 15/3 The people are cheerful, confidence is abundant, the war is over, so now let the good times roll in upon us. 1925 Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 3 (Libr. of Congr. Copyright Office) 19 iii. 476/1 Let the good times roll; w[ords] and melody Tom Delaney, of U. S. 1946 N.Y. Amsterdam News 28 Dec. 17/1 (heading) Let the good times roll. 1976 A. Murray Stomping Blues (2000) ix. 178 That's all right about all that other carrying on and stuff, I say let the good times roll! 1997 List 19 Dec. 14/1 George Square is the place to let the good times roll, with a programme of upbeat..acts performing..over two stages. 2007 H. Coburn Winners lvi. 352 They felt that talk of the horrors many had seen was not a good dinner subject, so they devoted their time to letting the good times roll. P8. to roll one's own: to make one's own cigarettes by wrapping paper tightly round loose tobacco. Also figurative: to get by without outside assistance. Cf. sense 33 and roll-your-own adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > make cigarettes roll1845 to roll one's own1900 1900 Internat. Cycl. XIV. 462 The practice is for the smoker to roll his own, rather than to smoke the manufactured article. 1932 J. D. Carr Poison in Jest xi. 157 He produced papers and tobacco... ‘Good American,’ he announced. ‘I roll my own.’ 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Roll one's own,..to do things without outside aid. 1941 N.Y. Times 25 July 14/5 ‘Ghosting’ is routine in public papers in the United States, and has been since our history began... Mr. Roosevelt proved again today that he can roll his own whenever he has the time and the inclination. 1960 J. McNamee Florencia Bay 59 Looks sixty. Thin face. Dark. Looks a little Indian but not our kind of Indian. Rolls his own. 2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 324/1 Johnny Depp whips out of pouch of Bali Shag tobacco, licks a dark-brown Rizla paper, and starts rolling his own. P9. to roll with the punches and variants: (of a boxer) to move the body, esp. the head, away from the opponent's blows so as to lessen the impact. Now usually figurative: to adapt oneself to adverse circumstances. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > give in to sky the wipe (or towel)1907 to roll with the punches1910 to pull one's punches1931 to lead with one's chin1949 the world > action or operation > behaviour > adaptability to circumstances > adapt to circumstances [verb (intransitive)] temporize1555 accommodate1597 localizea1631 to piece in1636 attemper1807 trim1888 adapt1910 reorient1916 adjust1924 to trim one's sails to the wind1928 to roll with the punches1956 1910 Washington Post 28 June 9/4 Johnson would allow his head to roll with each punch, one of his ways of lessening the force of the blows. 1951 J. J. Walsh Boxing Simplified viii. 32 In an actual bout he will not have so much time to roll with the blow. 1956 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy ii. 15 He had mastered the trick of rolling with the punches, rendering himself invisible when a crisis darkened the neighbouring skies. 1963 J. Crosby With Love & Loathing 48 Madison Avenue rolls with the blow; it watches carefully which direction the cookie crumbles. 2009 Retirement Income Reporter (Nexis) Feb. 9 People like him, who have secure jobs and deep-in-the-money mortgages, are rolling with the punches these days. P10. North American. figurative. to roll up the sidewalks: to cause all entertainment or leisure pursuits to cease (in a location). ΚΠ 1925 Jrnl. Electr. Workers & Operators 24 524/2 No excitement here; they roll up the sidewalks at 8 o'clock. 1951 Life 3 Sept. 135 (caption) It..lasted until midnight. Afterwards Hospitality Chairman Jimmy Adams..moaned, ‘Now they'll go back to rolling up the sidewalks every night at 10.’ 1967 Boston Sunday Globe 23 Apr. a43/1 No longer do they roll up the sidewalks when early Spring arrives. 2001 N.Y. Times 6 May ix. 10/1 (caption) In London, the City no longer rolls up its sidewalks at dusk. P11. heads will roll and variants: people will be dismissed, forced to resign, or otherwise stripped of power.In allusion to a literal threat of executions made by Adolf Hitler (see quot. 1930). Like the latter, similar earlier expressions usually include a modifier of heads and a prepositional phrase indicating location. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [phrase] > liability of incurring penalty under (also on, in, upon) (the) penalty of ——1560 heads will roll1946 society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [phrase] > some will be removed heads will roll1946 1930 Daily Herald 26 Sept. 1/1 Giving evidence, Hitler declared..‘If our movement is victorious there will be a revolutionary tribunal which will punish the crimes of November 1918. Then decapitated heads will roll in the sand.’] 1946 Billboard 9 Nov. 41/4 Before it's all over more heads will roll. 1961 Time 1 Dec. 77/3 A.M.C. made it clear, too, that more heads would roll if the workers still failed to get the message. 1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 7/2 President Nixon decreed ‘heads will roll’ if ‘petty bureaucrats’ hinder Jaffe's war on narcotics. 2000 K. Charles Cruel Habitations (2001) xi. 195 But there's going to be the most almighty kerfuffle when it all comes out. Fur will fly. Heads may roll. extracted from rollv.² < as lemmas
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