| 单词 | to take one's heels |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take one's heels (a) to take one's heels: to run away, to flee. Now rare. ΚΠ 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 127 When this Manes had taken his heeles and renne awaye from his maister [L. is quum profugisset a domino]. 1607 T. Tomkis Lingua i. viii. sig. Cv Seeing me eft-soones, he tooke his heeles, And threw his garment from him all in hast. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 94 Nay, and you will not sir, Ile take my heeles . View more context for this quotation 1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. Pref. 1 Let us take our heels and run away. 1751 W. Forbes Dominie Deposed (ed. 10) i. 6 This made my Lad at length to loup, And take his Heels. 1777 S. Elbert in Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc. (1902) V. 27 The Indians fired on them & Killed five in Cool blood, that they took their Heels & made their Escape. < as lemmas |
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