| 单词 | to sting to the quick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto touch (also gall, sting, etc.) to the quick b. figurative. The seat of feeling or emotion in a person; the core of a person's being. In later use, chiefly in phrases denoting acute mental anguish or irritation, as to touch (also gall, sting, etc.) to the quick. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > touchiness > [noun] > point in respect of which quicka1529 sore place1690 raw1825 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiii Yf a man fortune to touche you on the quyke Then feyne yourselfe dyseased. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Ciiii Their tenauntes..whom they polle and shaue to ye quycke by reysing their rentes. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 560 Tigranes..was galled to the quicke, and hitte at the harte. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer ii. 933 I confesse that on the quick they grated, Who in this manner have expostulated. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rom. ii. 3) This is preaching to the conscience, to the quick. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 51 This stung the elder Brother to the Quick. 1793 F. Burney Lett. 21 Oct. I could not deeply consider the situation of these venerable men, without feeling for them to the quick. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Walking to Mail in Poems (new ed.) II. 50 A Tory to the quick. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. i. iv. 45 His proud temper was chafed to the quick, and he turned sick with anger. 1935 G. Santayana Last Puritan ii. xii. 203 Damned unfair, too, to my poor father who had made every sacrifice for me, and was cut to the quick. 1961 N. Roy Black Albino 65 The contempt with which the chief treated him in this choice of weapons before all, touched him to the quick. 1989 M. Gordon Other Side ii. iii. 129 ‘The world's a brighter place for you than me,’ Bella had said to Ellen once. Wounding her to the quick. 1997 J. Ryan Dismantling Mr Doyle x. 141 She was hurt to the quick and anxious at all costs not to put words on what had happened. to sting to the quick a. ‘To pierce or wound with a point darted out, as that of wasps or scorpions’ (Johnson). Said also of venomous serpents and some other animals which inflict sharp or poisonous wounds. to sting to death; also to sting to the quick (now rare in literal sense: see 5). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > sting or bite stingc888 pricka1200 to-sting?a1300 to-bite1375 bitea1382 stanga1400 tanga1400 strikec1480 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxi. §2 Swa swa seo beo sceal losian þonne heo hwæt irringa stingð. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17441 Þa neddress þatt stungenn þe menn. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 206/232 Þe Crapoudes..stoungen heom þoruȝ heore heortene with heore foule wrottes grete. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3896 Ðor-fore hem cam wrim-kin among, Ðat hem wel bitterlike stong. a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 759 The adder so the grehound stang. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xxi. iv. 845 An adder..stonge a knyght on the foot & whan the knyght felte hym stongen [etc.]. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 736/1 I wene this adder hath styngyd me. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xxv. 584 Good to be dronken of them which are stongue with Bees and Waspes. 1587 R. Crompton Short Declar. End Traytors sig. Diijv Some times they were stinged to death, with fierie Serpents of straunge kind. 1630 J. Smith True Trav. xxvii. 58 Stung neere to death with a most poysoned taile of a fish called Stingray. c1662 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 262 Little flyes which sting our hands and faces. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iii. 64 They would fix upon my Nose or Forehead, where they stung me to the quick. 1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 76 Stung by a wasp. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. iv. vii. 64 Stung by an adder. < as lemmas |
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