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单词 to sling the hatchet
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to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet
b. to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet: to exaggerate; to fabricate, invent. Cf. to draw the long bow at longbow n. Phrases. Now historical and rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase]
to go beyond the moon?c1430
to cast beyond the moon1559
to lay on load?1562
to lay it on with a trowela1616
all (his) geese are swans1621
to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667
to lay it on thick1740
to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778
to come it1796
to make a thing about (also of)1813
to draw with the long-bow1823
to pitch it strong1823
to overegg the pudding1845
to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865
to god it1870
to strong it1964
to stretch it (or things)1965
1778 F. Pilon Invasion i. 14 Tat. Split my drum sticks, how you do fling the hatchet, Serjeant! Drill. Why do you doubt my word, you dog!
1821 P. Egan Life in London iii. 217 There is nothing..‘throwing the hatchet’ about this description. It is the plain and naked truth.
1826 J. O'Keeffe Recoll. I. iv. 147 Saying this, I do not myself fling the hatchet, as Daly told me the circumstance.
1893 T. B. Foreman Trip to Spain 97 The ladies titter, knowing, as we do, the skipper's habit of slinging the hatchet.
1901 E. R. Suffling Innocents on Broads x. 244 If you can't sling the hatchet with any man..I'll eat my boots... You are a proper liar, and no mistake.
1996 J. A. Ferguson Miss Charity's Case x. 121 Sling the hatchet at someone else, young man. I do not need you lathering me with untruths.
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