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单词 to take a buttonhole lower
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to take (a person) (down) a buttonhole lower
colloquial. to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)and variants: to lower (a person) in status or esteem; to humble or humiliate (a person), esp. one regarded as having an inflated opinion of himself or herself. Similarly to take (a person) (down) a buttonhole lower . Cf. to take (a person) down a peg (or two). Now rare (chiefly U.S. in later use).
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Huntington Libr. copy) sig. C4 The haire shirt will chase whordome out of their boanes, and the hard lodging on the boards take their flesh downe a button hole lower.
1593 G. Peele Famous Chron. King Edward the First sig. F2v O Frier you grow chollericke, wel yole Haue no man to Court your mislers but your selfe, On my word ile take you downe a botton hole.
a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) ii. i. 18 It seems we have got the start of you, for being but a servant you are taken a button-hole lower.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iv. 47 Better mind yerselves, or I'll take ye down a button-hole lower.
1886 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 30 Apr. 5/4 A few of the rank and file (excuse the ordinary expression) have been taken down a button-hole... Some of them used to wear their noses high.
1930 Z. N. Hurston De Turkey & de Law (typescript, Libr. of Congr.) 12 Ah'll stop long enough to take you down a button-hole lower. (He..finds a seat and draws it up to the card table).
1956 Washington Post 9 May 14/4 If and when any group..tends to get too big for its britches, we should not hesitate to take it down a buttonhole or two.
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