| 单词 | to put the last hand to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put the last (also final, finishing, etc.) hand to a. A touch or stroke applied by an artist, etc. Frequently in to put the last (also final, finishing, etc.) hand to. Cf. touch n. 10. See also last hand n. at last adv., adj., and n.4 Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > stroke of pen or brush draughtc1305 hand1567 trait1589 hair-stroke1634 masterstroke1679 stroke1815 slick1881 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 297 Beynge the cause of hys tormente, [she] maye also put her laste hande to hys fatall execution. 1707 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 132 An opportunity of putting the last hand to the happy union of the 2 kingdoms. 1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 405 An itinerary I am giving the last hand to. 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) II. 291 Willing to put the finishing hand to our principal work. 1856 H. Melville Let. 24 Mar. in Corr. (1993) 288 I..hope that some one who understands punctuation better than I do, will give the final hand to it. 1875 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. (ed. 3) ix. 376 The compiler did not put his last hand to the work. 1911 tr. A. de Montor Lives & Times of Popes IX. 140 It [sc. a refuge for poor children] received a new development, which it only wanted the perfecting hand of his successor to carry to its attainable completeness. 1999 A. Eyffinger 1899 Hague Peace Conf. xi. 422 It now remained to the Drafting Committee of the Final Act to put the last hand to the phrasing. < as lemmas |
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