单词 | to rough it out |
释义 | > as lemmasto rough it out P2. transitive. to rough it out: to endure rough or difficult conditions. See out adv. 7b. ΚΠ c1771 M. Suckling Let. in R. Southey Life Nelson (1813) I. i. 5 What..has poor Horatio done,..that he..should be sent to rough it out at sea? 1805 Naval Chron. 13 12 There we took up our nightly abode, and a rare cold one it was... When the last night of our roughing it out arrived, [etc.]. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xviii. 249 I determined, to use a nautical expression, to rough it out. 1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 747/2 He's in my watch, and the captain wants him to rough it out; so show him the ropes, and let him taste an end now an' then. 1886 C. King Marion's Faith vi. 95 We're going to have no end of a good time here this summer..while you're roughing it out on the Big Horn. 1909 Everybody's Mag. Nov. 602/2 She is a Bradford School girl and a Smith College girl... Can I ask a girl trained to that sort of thing to rough it out here with me? 1953 Billboard 11 July 57/4 If times are bad, they can rough it out longer. 2005 T. Dorsey Torpedo Juice 48 A remote island not yet touched by public utilities, where modern homesteaders rough it out with cisterns, solar panels and generators. < as lemmas |
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