单词 | to throw the house out of the window |
释义 | > as lemmasto throw (also fling) the house out of (also †at) the window (also windows) d. to throw (also fling) the house out of (also †at) the window (also windows) and variants: to put everything into a state of disorder or confusion, to create an uproar; (also, now usually) to celebrate with abandon.House here apparently has the sense ‘household possessions, furniture’ (cf. household n. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > be in commotion or disorder [verb (intransitive)] > cause commotion or disorder to make work?1473 perturb1543 hurly-burly1598 to throw (also fling) the house out of (also at) the window (also windows)1602 tumultuate1611 to beat up the quarters of1670 hurricane1682 larum1729 to kick up, make, raise a stour1787 stour1811 to strike a bustle1823 to cut shindies1829 to kick up a shindy1829 hurricanize1833 rumpus1839 to raise (Old) Ned1840 to raise hell1845 fustle1891 to rock the boat1903 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 44 You shall haue a yong Iesuitesse ready to flie in his face, to cast the house out at the window. 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle iii. sig. G3 We are at home now; where I warrant you, you shall finde the house flung out at the windowes. 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 73 Sometimes shee is all for belly cheare and banquettings, and as we say, throwes the house out at the windowes. 1719 ‘J. Gay’ Ovid in Masquerade 4 I am Sprung from the great Telamon, Who..Sack'd the Trojans....And threw their Houses out at Windows. 1783 T. Holcroft Human Happiness vi. 65 Break the crockery,..cuff their wives, and whip their babies, Burn tables,..And toss the house out at the windows. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. vi. 144 Would not..Stubbs throw the house out of the windows afterwards? 1913 E. Phillpotts Widecombe Fair v. 36 They say things, and do things, and even think things, that you'd fear must throw the house out of windows, and wreck the home for evermore. 1964 H. F. Peterson Argentina & U.S. xxii. 391 The porteños ‘threw their house out of the window’ to welcome the American fleet in World War I. 2005 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 15 Apr. (World section) 1 If Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga is chosen, she says, ‘We will throw the house out the window’—that is, in Honduras-speak, they will party. < as lemmas |
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