单词 | to take the high hand |
释义 | > as lemmasto take the high hand P1. with (also † in, through) a high hand: with imperious or absolute exercise of power; imperiously. Also in with a higher hand, to take the high hand, etc. [Compare post-classical Latin in manu excelsa, lit. ‘in a high hand’ (Vulgate), and also manus alta force, altior manus upper hand (both 14th cent. in British sources).] ΚΠ OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) xxxii. 27 Vre hand is heah [L. manus nostra excelsa] & ne worhte Drihten ðas ðingc.] a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Num. xxxiii. 3 Þer fore þei goon forþ..in an hiȝ hond [1535 Coverdale thorow an hye hande; 1611 King James with an high hand; L. in manu excelsa]. a1555 J. Bradford Godlye Medytacyon (1559) sig. E.i Suffer hym not to seduce the symple sort with his fonde opinion, that his false gods, blind mumbling, fayned religion or his folishe supersticion, doth geue hym suche conquestes, suche victories, suche triumphe, and so high hand ouer vs. 1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. ii. 92 Much more will hee scourge them that sinne with an hie hand. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 7 Carrying..all a kinde of high hand over their wiues. 1676 W. Allen Serious & Friendly Addr. Non-conformists 171 In truth he had with a high hand forbidden it. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxiv. 189 My busy Apprehension immediately suggested to me, that I was to be terrified, with a high Hand, into a Compliance with some new Scheme or other. 1774 J. Johnson Let. 6 Apr. in Joshua Johnson's Letterbk. (1979) 131 I have no doubt of establishing our reputations..and much to the prejudice of Molleson and some others who have heretofore held a high hand. 1808 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IV. 96 An army that, to be successful and carry things with a high hand, ought to be able to move. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. ii. 240 The dominant party carrying it with a high hand. 1880 E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family I. ii. 47 He..carried things with a higher hand than once she would have thought possible. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 147 I took the high hand in despair, said there must be no talk of Irvine coming back. 1932 Pop. Aviation Dec. 360/2 It is the high hand of authority that is choking the life out of a young and promising industry. 1999 Evening Standard (Nexis) 4 Mar. 33 With the Convention on Human Rights a part of British law, it would mean his office couldn't take a high hand and reject what it considered obscene out of hand. 2007 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Nov. 3 There is a certain type of customer who is lovely with myself, or the owner, but who seems to treat the rest of the staff with a high hand. < as lemmas |
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