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单词 to start in
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to start in
to start in
intransitive. colloquial.
a. To begin (to do something). Cf. to start out 4a at Phrasal verbs 1.Quot. 1737 (and quot. 1830, which closely echoes it) may represent a slightly different sense in Scottish usage; other examples before the 20th cent. are predominantly from U.S. contexts.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)]
beginc1000
onginOE
aginOE
ginc1175
to go tillc1175
to take onc1175
comsea1225
fanga1225
to go toc1275
i-ginc1275
commencec1320
to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400
to lay to one's hand(sc1405
to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410
to set toc1425
standa1450
to make to1563
to fall to it1570
to start out1574
to fall to1577
to run upon ——1581
to break off1591
start1607
to set in1608
to set to one's hands1611
to put toa1616
to fall ona1625
in1633
to fall aboard1642
auspicatea1670
to set out1693
to enter (into) the fray1698
open1708
to start in1737
inchoate1767
to set off1774
go1780
start1785
to on with1843
to kick off1857
to start in on1859
to steam up1860
to push off1909
to cut loose1923
to get (also put) the show on the road1941
to get one's arse in gear1948
1737 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. IV. 168 When we had three times toom'd our Stoup..In started, to heeze up our hope, Young Andro.
1830 W. Scott Lady of Lake Introd., in Poet. Wks. (new ed.) VII. p. v I remember that about the same time a friend started in to ‘heeze up my hope’, like the minstrel in the old song.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. lii. 200 The second fiddle..was sometimes so utterly lost, that Dan would tell him to stop, and ‘start in when the tune kim round agin!’
1865 J. W. Barber & H. Howe Loyal West 687 Late on Saturday evening the Almighty started in to make a tremendous great river.
1885 Lisbon (Dakota Territory) Star 2 Jan. 7/1 The United States commissioner for Dakota..started in to give the world a comprehensive idea of the resources..of the territory.
1902 O. Wister Virginian xxix. 371 I was starting in to die when she found me.
1912 P. G. Wodehouse Prince & Betty iv. 53 Then we start in.
1978 T. Allbeury Lantern Network vii. 87 Chaland had started in straightaway. ‘Bonnier your group is far too big.’
1990 P. Matthiessen Killing Mister Watson (1991) 212 Charlie T. laughed..and Isaac whooped again and slapped his thigh, and some women started in to hissing about sacrilege.
2001 D. Freund Four Corners vi. 79 She knew damn well that they'd start in as soon as the truck left the driveway.
b. to start in on (or upon).
(a) To make a start on an activity, enterprise, topic, etc.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)]
beginc1000
onginOE
aginOE
ginc1175
to go tillc1175
to take onc1175
comsea1225
fanga1225
to go toc1275
i-ginc1275
commencec1320
to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400
to lay to one's hand(sc1405
to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410
to set toc1425
standa1450
to make to1563
to fall to it1570
to start out1574
to fall to1577
to run upon ——1581
to break off1591
start1607
to set in1608
to set to one's hands1611
to put toa1616
to fall ona1625
in1633
to fall aboard1642
auspicatea1670
to set out1693
to enter (into) the fray1698
open1708
to start in1737
inchoate1767
to set off1774
go1780
start1785
to on with1843
to kick off1857
to start in on1859
to steam up1860
to push off1909
to cut loose1923
to get (also put) the show on the road1941
to get one's arse in gear1948
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures
fangc1320
hurtlec1374
impugnc1384
weighc1386
to fall upon ——a1398
to start on ——a1398
oppugn?1435
to lay to, untoa1500
onseta1522
wipe1523
to set against ——1542
to fall aboard——1593
aggress1596
to fall foul1602
attack1613
appugn1615
to set upon ——1639
to fall on ——1641
to lay home, hard, hardly to1650
tack1720
bombard1766
savage1796
to pitch into ——1823
to begin upon a personc1825
bulldog1842
to down on (also upon)a1848
to set at ——1849
to start on ——a1851
to start in on1859
set on at or to1862
to let into1872
to go for ——1890
swash1890
slog1891
to get at ——1893
tee1955
1859 Calif. Culturist Mar. 438 As we really want to talk about hogs, and our rule being always to use the fewest words and the shortest, in expressing our ideas, we shall start in on hog.
1887 Harper's Young People 17 May 459/1 I'm exactly in the same condition as I was when I started in on my speculations.
1925 J. Buchan John Macnab vii. 144 In this country, once you start in on politics you're fixed in a class and members of a hierarchy.
1940 H. R. S. Society Rag Nov. 2/1 Clarinetist Albert Nichols starts in on some old standard like High Society or maybe Dinah.
2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody ix. 80 Back in the kitchen, I started in on the sinkful of dishes.
(b) To attack physically or verbally; to make an onslaught upon. Cf. to start on —— at Phrasal verbs 2.
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1861 7th Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1860 300 They [sc. army worms] started in upon a field of oats belonging to one of our citizens..; after advancing some ten or fifteen feet into the field..they suddenly ceased their work of destruction and disappeared.
1891 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Nov. 428/1 I thought ev'ry minnit, soon's he'd satisfied himself that I war fit to kill, he'd start in on me.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned iii. 23 I'll give you five minutes, and then I'll start in on you. So hand over the two quid.
1968 N. Bethell & D. Burg tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Cancer Ward I. xxi. 332 The critics may start in on you.
2003 R. Liddle Too Beautiful for You (2004) 187 I lose it a bit and really start in on her.
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