| 单词 | to take wing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take (†its, etc.) wing (b) to take (†its, etc.) wing (take v. 68a). extracted from wingn. (i) Of a bird, etc.: to take flight, begin flying. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [verb (intransitive)] > fly flusha1300 soarc1384 fly1480 flitter1483 flit1535 fleck1567 flirt1582 wagtail1606 waft1682 to take to wing1693 flaffer17.. to take (its, etc.) wing1807 skirl1859 1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 136 He knew the Rocks which Angels haunt..; He hath kenn'd them taking wing. 1812 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 62 They will instantly take wing and give you a beautiful shot. 1890 C. Dixon Stray Feathers i. 6 The Ring Doves, startled at this, took wing. (ii) figurative. To ‘take flight’, take one's departure, make off, flee. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily fleec825 runOE swervea1225 biwevec1275 skip1338 streekc1380 warpa1400 yerna1400 smoltc1400 stepc1460 to flee (one's) touch?1515 skirr1548 rubc1550 to make awaya1566 lope1575 scuddle1577 scoura1592 to take the start1600 to walk off1604 to break awaya1616 to make off1652 to fly off1667 scuttle1681 whew1684 scamper1687 whistle off1689 brush1699 to buy a brush1699 to take (its, etc.) wing1704 decamp1751 to take (a) French leave1751 morris1765 to rush off1794 to hop the twig1797 to run along1803 scoot1805 to take off1815 speela1818 to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 absquatulize1829 mosey1829 absquatulate1830 put1834 streak1834 vamoose1834 to put out1835 cut1836 stump it1841 scratch1843 scarper1846 to vamoose the ranch1847 hook1851 shoo1851 slide1859 to cut and run1861 get1861 skedaddle1862 bolt1864 cheese it1866 to do a bunkc1870 to wake snakes1872 bunk1877 nit1882 to pull one's freight1884 fooster1892 to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892 smoke1893 mooch1899 to fly the coop1901 skyhoot1901 shemozzle1902 to light a shuck1905 to beat it1906 pooter1907 to take a run-out powder1909 blow1912 to buzz off1914 to hop it1914 skate1915 beetle1919 scram1928 amscray1931 boogie1940 skidoo1949 bug1950 do a flit1952 to do a scarper1958 to hit, split or take the breeze1959 to do a runner1980 to be (also get, go) ghost1986 society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > hastily or suddenly fleec825 warpa1400 wringc1400 bolt1575 decamp1751 mog1770 to hop the twig1797 to take (its, etc.) wing1806 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 vamoose1834 fade1848 skedaddle1862 to beat it1906 blow1912 to hop it1914 beetle1919 bug1950 jet1951 1704 London Gaz. No. 4056/5 Success, like Fame, has taken Wing. 1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 24 The weary Soul..ready to leave the Carcase, and yet not suffer'd to take it's Wing. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iv. 67 I lately changed my lodgings... I took wing at a moment's warning. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 56 As he touched the lock, they took wing like a covey of partridges. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxvi. 59 I found a fellow who..knew this Mrs Glasher before she took wing. < as lemmas |
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