英语词汇“to shoot the pit”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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to shoot the pit

†c. to shoot the pit: of a fighting cock, to rush out of the cockpit from cowardice. Often figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > be cowardly or show signs of cowardice [verb (intransitive)] > (of fighting cock) rush out of the cockpit

to shoot the pit1675

1675 A. Marvell Let. Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. He hath a month ago shot the pit. For being a vaine fellow and expensive beyond his incomes, he hath thought convenient to passe over into Holland.

1681 Heraclitus Ridens 30 Aug. 2/2 Two or three more such stroaks will make them shoot the Pit.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. ⁋19 327 Which made the whole Party shoot the Pit and retire, as not caring to be pointed at with ill-favoured Reflections.

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单词	to shoot the pit
释义	> as lemmas to shoot the pit †c. to shoot the pit: of a fighting cock, to rush out of the cockpit from cowardice. Often figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > be cowardly or show signs of cowardice [verb (intransitive)] > (of fighting cock) rush out of the cockpit to shoot the pit1675 1675 A. Marvell Let. Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. He hath a month ago shot the pit. For being a vaine fellow and expensive beyond his incomes, he hath thought convenient to passe over into Holland. 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 30 Aug. 2/2 Two or three more such stroaks will make them shoot the Pit. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. ⁋19 327 Which made the whole Party shoot the Pit and retire, as not caring to be pointed at with ill-favoured Reflections. extracted from shootv. < as lemmas
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