| 单词 | to sock it to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sock it to (b) In phrases. to sock it to (one): to strike, deal a blow to (that person); to ‘give it’ to (one). Hence figurative; frequently in imperative, as catchphrase sock it to me (them, etc.)!, used to express encouragement, sexual invitation, etc. Also in noun phrase sock-it-to-me, a loud and violent style of music; a piece of such music. Originally and chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object drepeOE smitec1200 buffet?c1225 strike1377 rapa1400 seta1400 frontc1400 ballc1450 throw1488 to bear (a person) a blow1530 fetch1556 douse1559 knetcha1564 slat1577 to hit any one a blow1597 wherret1599 alapate1609 shock1614 baske1642 measure1652 plump1785 jow1802 nobble1841 scuff1841 clump1864 bust1873 plonk1874 to sock it to1877 dot1881 biff1888 dong1889 slosh1890 to soak it to1892 to cop (a person) one1898 poke1906 to hang one on1908 bop1931 clonk1949 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat shendc893 overwinOE overheaveOE mate?c1225 to say checkmatea1346 vanquishc1366 stightlea1375 outrayc1390 to put undera1393 forbeat1393 to shave (a person's) beardc1412 to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425 adawc1440 supprisec1440 to knock downc1450 to put to the worsta1475 waurc1475 convanquish1483 to put out1485 trima1529 convince1548 foil1548 whip1571 evict1596 superate1598 reduce1605 convict1607 defail1608 cast1610 banga1616 evince1620 worst1646 conquer1655 cuffa1657 trounce1657 to ride down1670 outdo1677 routa1704 lurcha1716 fling1790 bowl1793 lick1800 beat1801 mill1810 to row (someone) up Salt River1828 defeat1830 sack1830 skunk1832 whop1836 pip1838 throw1850 to clean out1858 take1864 wallop1865 to sock it to1877 whack1877 to clean up1888 to beat out1893 to see off1919 to lower the boom on1920 tonk1926 clobber1944 ace1950 to run into the ground1955 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > expressions of commendation [interjection] > inviting commendation how is that for high?1869 sock it to me (them, etc.)!1963 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > style of composition French Impressionism1884 monothematism1886 impressionism1889 blues1915 neoprimitivism1922 pointillism1922 blue1924 stile concitato1926 kineticism1939 stile antico1944 galant1949 sock it to me (them, etc.)!1970 1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 623 Two loafers are fighting; one of the crowd cries out, ‘Sock it to him.’ 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xliii. 438 A rich man won't have anything but your very best; and you can..pile it on and sock it to him. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxiii. 422 ‘Well, observe the difference: you pay eight cents and four mills, we pay only four cents.’ I prepared, now, to sock it to him. I said: ‘Look here,..what's become of your high wages you were bragging so about, a few minutes ago?’—and I looked around on the company with placid satisfaction. 1901 Cent. Mag. May 124 We shall sock it to them, we shall indeed. 1927 O. W. Holmes in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) II. 975 I have heard an English judge sock it to the jury in a murder case. 1963 B. J. Chute Shift to Right 153 There was a shriek from the panting Trenton stands: ‘Yea, Rusty. Sock it to 'em.’ 1968 Telegraph (Brisbane) 15 June 2/3 ‘Sock it to me’ is a catch-phrase which is sweeping America... It's all due to Judy Carne,..who cheekily used the phrase in a weekly comedy show called ‘Laugh In’. 1969 R. Lowell Notebk. 137 The little girl's bedroom, perfect with posters: ‘Do not enter,’ and ‘Sock it to me, Baby.’ 1969 Times 19 July 9/6 The black American phrase ‘sock it to me’ (with an obscene connotation). 1969 Times 29 July 1/3 If President Nixon is going to ‘sock it’ to anyone, the likeliest recipient is the South Vietnamese government. 1970 S. Sheldon Naked Face (1971) ii. 16 She reached between his legs and stroked him, whispering, ‘Go, baby. Sock it to me.’ 1970 Melody Maker 11 July 19/7 It's good to hear Pickett getting away from the sock-it-to-me and into gentler songs. 1971 West Indian World 12 Nov. 14/3 Back to the sock-it-to-me's with Jesse James's ‘Don't Nobody Want to Get Married’..which storms breathlessly along complete with hard-hitting bass and wow-wow guitars. 1977 New Yorker 2 May 34/2 I can't afford a second divorce. Daphne would really sock it to me. 1978 Railway Age 25 Dec. 25/2 Does all this boil down to some kind of accounting legerdemain that, in the end, will be socking it to the taxpayers? < as lemmas |
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