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单词 to take time, opportunity, etc by the forelock
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to take time, opportunity, etc. by the forelock
2. figurative; esp. in phrase to take time, opportunity, etc. by the forelock.Suggested by the representation described in Phædrus Fab. v. viii, ‘Calvus, comosa fronte, nudo occipitio,..Occasionem rerum significat brevem.’
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > occur earlier or go before [verb (intransitive)] > act in advance or anticipate
to be beforehand with1574
to take time, opportunity, etc. by the forelock1589
proact1956
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. G4v Thinking now to..take opportunitie by his forelockes.
1595 E. Spenser Amoretti lxx, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. E4v The ioyous time wil not be staid Vnlesse she doe him by the forelock take.
1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat v. i. sig. I4v I'll take occasion by the forelock.
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 301 I took time by the fore-lock.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. Notes 277 I became a Philosopher..to catch..Wisdom by the forelock.
1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. vii. 213 The occasion..was bald behind, and must be grasped by the forelock.
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