| 单词 | to sweat blood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sweat blood Frequently to sweat blood in reference to the bloody sweat of Jesus (see sweat n. 2c).extracted from sweatv.to sweat blood b. figurative. To give forth or get rid of as by sweating; slang, to spend, lay out (money). Also with away, out. In slang phrases: to sweat one's guts out (see quot. 1890); to sweat blood, (a) to exert oneself to the utmost; (b) to be terrified. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend [verb (transitive)] aspendc885 doOE spendc1175 spenec1175 dispendc1330 bewarec1374 bestow1377 suckc1380 unpursea1393 warea1417 stowc1440 to lay outc1449 spone1456 expend1477 expend1484 impendc1486 ware?a1513 deburse?1529 disburse1530 defray1543 unburse1570 outlay1573 to lay forth1584 sweat1592 vent1612 dispursea1616 exhaust1616 to set forth1622 waste1639 depursea1648 fence1699 douse1759 shut1797 shift1923 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > emit by exudation > give forth as by sweat1592 society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil workeOE swingc1000 to the boneOE labourc1390 toilc1400 drevyll?1518 drudge1548 droy1576 droil1591 to tug at the (an) oar1612 to stand to it1632 rudge1676 slave1707 to work like a beaver1741 to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828 to feague it away1829 to work like a nigger1836 delve1838 slave1852 leather1863 to sweat one's guts out1890 hunker1903 to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932 to eat (also work) like a horse1937 beaver1946 to work like a drover's dog1952 to get one's nose down (to)1962 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil sweatc897 swingc1000 swinkOE travailc1275 carka1350 tavec1350 to-swinkc1386 labourc1390 byswenke?a1400 tevelc1400 toilc1400 pingle1511 carp1522 moilc1529 turmoil1548 mucker1566 tug1619 tuggle1650 fatigue1695 hammer1755 fag1772 bullock1888 slog1888 to sweat one's guts out1890 schlep1937 slug1943 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > make a great effort to move (also stir) heaven and earth1580 to swelt one's heart1584 to sweat blood1911 to bust (also rupture) a gut1912 to fall over backwards1932 to bust (also break) one's balls1968 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > be terrified [verb (intransitive)] fordreadc1175 dreada1240 breec1375 tremblec1475 misdread1597 to sweat blood1924 1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. A4 Hath your smooth lookes linckt in some yong Nouice to sweate for a fauour all the byte in his Bounge? c1610–15 tr. St. Augustine Life St. Monica in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 140 I could not sweate out from my hart that bitternes of sorrow. 1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all v. 65 If my shoulders had not paid for this fault, my purse must have sweat blood for't.] 1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions iv. 27 A Set of human Bodies..that could live always in a hot Bath, and neither sweat out their Souls, or melt their Bodies. 1791 T. Beddoes tr. J. K. A. Musäus Pop. Tales of Germans II. 80 His intractable pupil had entirely sweated away his Creed during the night! 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Sweat one's guts out, a vulgar expression, meaning to work very hard. 1911 G. Stratton-Porter Harvester xvii. 405 He just sweat blood to pacify her, but he couldn't make it. 1924 D. H. Lawrence in M. Magnus Mem. Foreign Legion 53 I sweat blood every time anybody comes through the door. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xii. 228 It makes one sick to see half a dozen men sweating their guts out to dig a trench.., when some easily devised machine would scoop the earth out in a couple of minutes. 1950 ‘J. Tey’ To love & be Wise xiii. 163 I expect he sweats blood over his writing. He has no imagination. 1961 R. Jeffries Evidence of Accused v. 45 You sweated your guts out for months and finished your book, then the public looked the other way. 1973 W. M. Duncan Big Timer xxi. 138 I was sitting there sweating blood when those damned cops arrived. < as lemmas |
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