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单词 to pull by the ears
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to pull (also drag, draw, pluck, etc.) by the ears
(c) to pull (also drag, draw, pluck, etc.) by the ears: to convey or extract violently and roughly (sometimes literally by the ears). to pull a person by the ear [perhaps partly after classical Latin aurem vellere] : figurative to compel a person's attention (obsolete).
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1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 961/2 Bertram was the fyrste that pulled me by the eare, and that fyrste brought me from that common errour of the Romishe churche.
1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catechisme f. 3 v Such is our dulnesse and forgetfulnesse, that we must oft be taught and put in remembrance,..and as it were pulled by the eare [L. quasi auribus vellicandi].
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 154v To make them fyerce and curst, you must plucke them by the eares [L. auribus vellendi].
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie sig. I3v For Poesie, must not be drawne by the eares, it must bee, gently led.
1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. Cv They have all vowed to hale thee out of thy trenches by the head and eares.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. 592 They would go home to their very houses, and pluck them out by the eares [L. et in publicum omnes vi extracturos esse].
1636 T. Heywood Loves Maistresse iv. i Venus will sole mee by the eares for this.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ at Sowl To Sowl one by the ears, vox agro Linc. usitatissima (i.e.) aures summâ vi vellere.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 393 Then Jove said [to Olympus], Thou Vbiquitary God, shoot thy self into the World, and in a trice drag Fortune hither by the Ears.
1840 G. Darley Thomas à Becket iii. vii. 75 Go you, pull him out by the ears.
1925 S. Lewis Martin Arrowsmith vi. 63 She's an old terror. If she found a child like you wandering around here she'd drag you out by the ear.
1991 S. Keen Fire in Belly v. xiv. 221 I pulled up the offending youngsters by the ears.
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