| 单词 | to set up one's comb |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto set up one's comb 5. From sense 4 come the phrases: †to set up one's comb: to be proud or vainglorious, to hold one's head high. to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of: to lower the pride of, take the conceit out of, tame, ‘take down’, abash, humiliate. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 ?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew vi. f. lxiv If it moue the to set vp thy combe when thou geuest thy brother a ferthynge or an halfepennye. 1545 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Luke in Paraphr. New Test. (1548) Pref. After that repentaunce hath cast downe our combe. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xijv My combe was clerely cut. 1644 C. Jessop Angel Church of Ephesus 58 The one cuts the combe of Episcopall Dominion. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. ii. 55 All the Counts in Cumberland shall not cut my comb. 1890 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 50 352/3 His reckoning it a proud thing to cut the comb of an American at all hazards. < as lemmas |
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