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单词 to sweat for it
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to sweat for it
8. intransitive. To undergo severe affliction or punishment; to suffer severely. Often to sweat for it, to suffer the penalty, ‘get it hot’. Now rare or Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > [verb (intransitive)] > receive punishment > be punished severely
to buy the bargain dear1352
smart1534
sweata1625
to nap it1699
to get it1805
to catch or get Jesse1839
to get (also catch, take) it in the neck1881
to get beans1893
to get (also do) the book1928
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 516 Wel litel thynken ye vp on my wo That for youre loue I swete ther I go No wonder is thogh þt I swelte and swete.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 6 Haue Napkins enow about you, here you'le sweat for't.]
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe v. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Pp/1 Thou hadst wrongs, & if I live some of the best shall sweat fort.
1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life ii. 17 He [sc. our Lord before the Incarnation] was never sensible of pains and tortures..though afterwards he groaned and sweat under them.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. ii. ii. 77 For..'tis odds, but they..have us apprehended: and verily, if they do, before we get out of prison, we may chance to sweat for it.
figurative.1647 J. Trapp Mellificium Theol. in Comm. Epist. & Rev. 603 The variety of meats, wherewith great mens tables usually sweat.
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