| 单词 | to pull an old house on one's head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pull an old house on one's head ΚΠ 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 93 You shall pull an old house ouer your owne head by a further prouocation. 1642 C. Vernon Considerations Excheqver 88 Wary how they pull an old house upon their owne heads. 1739 J. Hildrop Ess. Free-thinking 7 He..will have good Luck if he does not pull an old House upon his Head. 1762 J. Mitchell Female Pilgrim 234 He must be repeating his grievances amongst some of the domesticks; which occasioned him trouble enough, and pulled an old house about his ears, as you shall hear by and by. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 53 You'll have less pleasure in pulling the house over my head, when your own skull's to be broken too.] < as lemmas |
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