| 单词 | to take one's gruel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take one's gruel 4. to have or get one's gruel: to receive one's punishment, to get killed. So to take one's gruel, to give (a person) his gruel. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] slayc1175 to put to deatha1450 to hang, draw, and quarter1465 strikec1480 execute1483 justify1531 execution1565 scaffold1716 to have or get one's gruel1797 society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (intransitive)] > be put to death to die the death1535 suffer1570 to have or get one's gruel1797 to take one's gruel1898 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. 26 My pupil talked of nothing but of returning to Devizes, to ‘give the ostler his gruel’ for having taken him in. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 100 He gathered..that they expressed great indignation against some individual. ‘He shall have his gruel’, said one. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xvi. 111 I've got my gruel! 1851 C. Kingsley Yeast viii They've done for me, Paul. Old Harry's got his gruel. 1898 A. Conan Doyle Trag. Korosko 192 What have we to hope for? We may just as well take our gruel. < as lemmas |
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