| 单词 | to shut one's face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shut (also close) one's face (a) to shut (also close) one's face: to shut one's mouth, keep quiet. Frequently as imperative, as shut your face!: ‘shut your mouth!’, ‘shut up!’ Also to button (up) one's face: see button v. Phrases 2. ΚΠ 1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 99 They shut up their faces like steel traps.] 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash II. xi. 140 Now this offer was no sooner made than Mr. Hardie shut his face, and went to mental arithmetic. 1893 S. Crane Maggie ix. 77 Shet yer face, an' come home, yer damned old fool. 1894 G. Ade Stories of Streets & Town 1st Ser. 120/2 He handed ‘Bumpers’ another dollar and said: ‘Keep your face closed.’ 1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 53 An' stop thy scraightin', childt. Do shut thy face. 1914 E. C. Garrett Dyak Chief & Other Verses 48 Close y' face and let me tell About the Dobie Itch. 1939 Best Short Stories 45 ‘Shut your daft grinning face,’ growled Arthur. 1972 G. Friel Mr Alfred M. A. xvi. 97 ‘Where have you been all this time?’ she shouted. ‘You've had me worried stiff!’‘Ach, shut your face, you old nag,’ said Gerald. 1979 R. Sapir & W. Murphy Destroyer 30 x. 138 ‘Close your face before I close it for you,’ Remo said. Tyrone did and slumped in the far corner of the cab's left rear seat. 2004 G. Woodward I'll go to Bed at Noon ii. 47 ‘Shut your face,’ Janus suddenly snapped,..‘Bill's coming to the pub with me’. < as lemmas |
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