单词 | to wipe up the floor or ground with |
释义 | > as lemmasto wipe up the floor or ground with e. to wipe one's boots on: to inflict the utmost indignity upon. to wipe the floor with: to ‘bring to the ground’ utterly, inflict a crushing defeat upon; also to wipe up the floor or ground with. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] > humiliate to the utmost to wipe one's boots on1887 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly threshc1384 to knock the socks offa1529 thump1597 thrash1609 thwacka1616 capot1649 to beat to snuff1819 to knock into a cocked hat1830 to —— (the) hell out of1833 sledgehammer1834 rout1835 whop1836 skin1838 whip-saw1842 to knock (the) spots off1850 to make mincemeat of1853 to mop (up) the floor with1875 to beat pointless1877 to lick into fits1879 to take apart1880 to knock out1883 wax1884 contund1885 to give (a person) fits1885 to wipe the floor with1887 flatten1892 to knock (someone) for six1902 slaughter1903 slather1910 to hit for six1937 hammer1948 whomp1952 bulldozer1954 zilch1957 shred1966 tank1973 slam-dunk1975 beast1977 1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 4 Jan. 2/6 Two brothers wipe up the floor with a Missouri newspaper man. 1888 Detroit Free Press 22 July 11/4 The Scroggin boy was as tough as a dogwood knot... He'd wipe up the ground with him; he'd walk all over him. 1896 Dial. Notes 1 427 Wipe the floor with, to defeat. 1897 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 26 May 7/4 Green fairly wiped the floor with Roberts in the first two rounds. 1899 J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris II. 346 Though he often wiped his boots on a man, he never showed him the more stinging insolence of condescension. 1905 ‘G. Thorne’ Lost Cause ix His only grief was that he was not allowed to ‘wipe the floor with that there Hamlyn’. 1908 Magnet 1 i. 3/1 I've wiped up the ground with bigger fellows than you, for far less cheek than you've given me. 1918 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Island Myst. xxiv. 231 He was so infernally certain that the Emperor would wipe the floor with us. < as lemmas |
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