| 单词 | to put, set, strain, stretch on the tenterhooks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put, set, strain, stretch on the tenterhooks b. esp. in phrases to put, set, strain, stretch on the tenterhooks: to strain, distort the sense of (words) (? obsolete); to strain (conscience, truth, authority, credit, etc.) beyond the proper, normal, or natural extent, limit, or scope; to put a strain on (a faculty, power, or capacity). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > misapply > apply or use beyond its province overstretcha1425 to put, set, stretch, etc. on (the) tenter(sa1533 stretch1553 to put, set, strain, stretch on the tenterhooks1583 outstretch1597 strain1597 tenter1611 overdraw1889 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E4v He racketh it, straineth it, and as it were so setteth it on the tenter hookes. 1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. H3v To racke, extort, and purloyne from other, and by setting the conscience on the tainter-hookes, to rise vp by his fall. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 134 Nor doe I here stretch my discourse on the tenter-hookes of partiality. 1700 W. King Transactioneer ii. 57 The poor People have set their Wits, as if it were on the Tenter-hooks, to make Turnep-Bread in Essex. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 340 Honest men..sometimes strain truth on the tenter-hooks of fiction. < as lemmas |
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