单词 | to sit hard on |
释义 | > as lemmasto sit hard on 7. intransitive. colloquial. to sit hard on: to come down hard on, be tough with (a person). Cf. Phrases 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > be harsh or severe upon [verb (transitive)] to be sharp upon1561 to come down1611 to be severe on (or upon)1672 spitchcock1674 to sit hard on1715 to handle without gloves1827 to handle with gloves off1828 to catch or get Jesse1839 to jump upon1868 to give (one) snuff1890 to give (a person) the works1901 hardball1984 1715 J. Collier Answer to Exceptions in Bishop Burnet's 3rd Pt. Hist. Reformation 3/1 He is pleas'd to..charge me..: That I sit hard on the Memory of our reforming Princes. 1892 Literary World 31 Dec. 497/1 A barmaid..married a well-born imbecile, and for a time sat hard on him and all his relations. 1918 G. D. H. Cole Self-Govt. in Industry (ed. 3) ii. 28 ‘We have sat hard on the workers during the war; we must sit no less hard on the employers when it is over’, a prominent Government official is reported to have said. 2016 J. D. Robb Apprentice in Death (2017) 127 Baxter, you're going to sit hard on Patroni, put the fear of God into him, if necessary. < as lemmas |
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