英语词汇“to throw the handle after the hatchet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. to throw the handle after the hatchet and variants: to gamble everything, having already gambled or lost part; to commit oneself totally in a risky venture; = to throw the helve after the hatchet at helve n. 1b.

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1664 Duchess of Newcastle CCXI Sociable Lett. xli. 85 They fling the Handle after the Hatchet.

?1797 tr. J.-M. Leprince de Beaumont Dialogues for Sunday Evenings I. 198 I doubt if one oath should escape me I shall be apt to throw the handle after the hatchet, as they say.

1853 H. Bleby Death Struggles of Slavery v. 38 It was only inflicting further wrong upon the..proprietors, to allow the hot-headed militia thus to ‘throw the handle after the hatchet’.

1884 Zion's Herald 13 Feb. 50/6 To what end should they so plague themselves? The pietistic pessimists have hurled the handle after the hatchet.

1921 Manch. Guardian 28 Jan. 4/3 The [Welsh rugby union] Selection Committee have made a clean sweep of the back division, but have not thrown the handle after the hatchet by rejecting J. Rees.

2012 Kerryman (County Kerry) (Nexis) 13 June It might now be the time to go for more emphasis on youth and throw the handle after the hatchet.

单词	to throw the handle after the hatchet
释义	> as lemmas to throw the handle after the hatchet P1. to throw the handle after the hatchet and variants: to gamble everything, having already gambled or lost part; to commit oneself totally in a risky venture; = to throw the helve after the hatchet at helve n. 1b. ΚΠ 1664 Duchess of Newcastle CCXI Sociable Lett. xli. 85 They fling the Handle after the Hatchet. ?1797 tr. J.-M. Leprince de Beaumont Dialogues for Sunday Evenings I. 198 I doubt if one oath should escape me I shall be apt to throw the handle after the hatchet, as they say. 1853 H. Bleby Death Struggles of Slavery v. 38 It was only inflicting further wrong upon the..proprietors, to allow the hot-headed militia thus to ‘throw the handle after the hatchet’. 1884 Zion's Herald 13 Feb. 50/6 To what end should they so plague themselves? The pietistic pessimists have hurled the handle after the hatchet. 1921 Manch. Guardian 28 Jan. 4/3 The [Welsh rugby union] Selection Committee have made a clean sweep of the back division, but have not thrown the handle after the hatchet by rejecting J. Rees. 2012 Kerryman (County Kerry) (Nexis) 13 June It might now be the time to go for more emphasis on youth and throw the handle after the hatchet. extracted from handlen.¹ < as lemmas
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