| 单词 | to work at arm's length |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto work at arm's length (also end) f. to work at arm's length (also end): to work under difficult or disadvantageous conditions. Now rare. ΚΠ 1804 Balance & Columbian Repos. 19 June 196/1 To economise in this line, or continue to work as it were at arm's end, by extending your manure too far and too thin. 1859 Nat. Preacher Feb. 43 Think you, that spiritual experience here stinted and dwarfed, perplexed, embarrassed, always imperfect, so to speak, working at arm's length, was made merely for time? 1887 Ann. Rep. School Comm. Boston (Mass.) 1886 289 For many years the master has worked at arm's length. 1904 Sumner (Iowa) Gaz. 19 Feb. 4/3 On large farms we must work at arm's length and cannot do as well as we know how to do, for we must work through other men. < as lemmas |
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