单词 | to rub through |
释义 | > as lemmasto rub through to rub through intransitive. figurative. To get through, endure. Also transitive, and with through as preposition. Cf. to rub along. Now rare. ΚΠ 1625 W. Bradford Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1794) 1st Ser. III. 36 Except we may have things, both more serviceable, and at better rates, we shall never be able to rub through. 1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions 103 Thus have I at length rub'd through the Reverend Authors Discourse. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 16 There is not any one Country whose inhabitants..rub through the world with more ease and quiet. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 55 Having liv'd in various Regions, and rubb'd through many Callings. 1780 A. Hamilton Let. 16 May in Papers (1961) II. 324 We are entered deeply in a contest on which our all depends. We must endeavor to rub through it. 1815 Ld. Dudley Let. 17 Jan. (1840) 85 Winter..he rubs through as well as he can by the help of patience and a cloak. 1849 M. Arnold Resignation 138 They rubb'd through yesterday In their hereditary way; And they will rub through, if they can, To-morrow on the self-same plan. 1906 Century July 469/1 If they could get hold of a good masseur and keep him right with them..they could manage to rub through to the end. 1916 Unpopular Rev. 6 339 Personally I contrived to rub through childhood without ever seeing a gross-beak. < as lemmas |
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