| 单词 | to put to his trump or trumps |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put (one) to (†upon) his trump or trumps c. to put (one) to (†upon) his trump or trumps: To oblige a card-player to play out his trumps; figurative ‘to put to the last expedient’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > reduce to straits enstraita1500 plungea1513 to put or drive to a (or the) shift or shifts1553 to put (one) to (upon) his trump or trumps1559 to drive (a person) near1594 to put, drive, reduce, etc. to the last shiftsa1604 to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to ita1616 press1672 pinch1693 push1761 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Cade xx Ere he took me, I put him to his trumpes. 1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes iii. iv. sig. Dv Doth not your bewtie put the painter to his trump? 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. i. 48 We are now put upon our last Trump. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xix. 526 The wind..oft put us to our trumps to manage the Ship. 1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xiv. 147 The Strangeness of her Dress put me to my Trumps, to conceive either what it was, or how it was put on. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. i. ii. 9 Whether such an unexpected accession of company..would not put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them. 1907 W. James Pragmatism iv. 142 A bit of danger or hardship puts us agreeably to our trumps. < as lemmas |
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