| 单词 | to take the starch out of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take the starch out of colloquial. to take the starch out of: (a) to make fun of, ridicule; to humble; to humiliate; to deflate; (b) to exhaust utterly; to put out of contention; to beat soundly (also to knock the starch out of). Cf. stuffing n. 2e. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > make humble [verb (transitive)] edmodienc1175 lowc1175 meekc1175 lessa1382 abatec1390 abasea1393 belowc1400 meekenc1400 disadvance?c1425 simplec1450 lowlyc1485 humilea1492 chasten1526 to pare the nails ofa1549 lessen1579 vail1582 to take (something) a hole lower1591 destate1615 humblea1616 thorough-humblea1617 humiliate1656 level1712 unnichea1751 to level up, down1791 unpedestal1821 to take the starch out of1830 1830 C. Cochrane Jrnl. Tour J. de Vega II. xv. 230 Having regularly taken the starch out of him for his light weight and slim figure, we proceeded to the Oak Inn. 1836 A. Cunningham Lord Roldan II. vi. 171 [He] muttered, ‘Should like to have a cut at the blasted frog-eaters..suspect we should take the starch out of the Mounseers.’ 1840 Spirit of Times 25 Apr. 90/1 There is something in training in these parts that will be very apt to ‘take the starch out’ of any ‘conceit’ they may have. 1846 Punch 10 139 The panic has begun to take the starch out of the provisional committee-man. 1870 A. S. Evans Our Sister Republic vi. 170 I would back the National Guard..or the MacMahon Guard..to give odds and knock the starch out of the entire phalanx. 1889 G. B. Shaw in Hawk 13 Aug. 172/1 This is the sort of thing that takes the starch out of the most bumptious critic. 1916 N.Y. Times 14 Sept. 8/1 [He] egged his fast flying hired men onto the..Cincinnati Reds and knocked the starch out of them in two games. 1936 V. W. Brooks Flowering of New Eng. vi. 113 The British reviews were cold and formal... The great Romantic critics had not appeared, to take the starch out of their pompous manners. 1998 E. Kelton Smiling Country iii. 62 ‘You took the starch out of him.’ Hewey said, ‘It took the starch out of me, watchin' him.’ 2014 News-Jrnl. (Daytona Beach, Florida) (Nexis) 2 Feb. The Arctic weather was taking the starch out of both teams. < as lemmas |
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