英语词汇“to —— a person's head off”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(i) to —— a person's head off and variants: to —— until a person is exhausted, or to an unbearable or wearisome degree; (later also in weakened use) to —— with great vigour or intensity, at great length, etc.Esp. with verbs of speaking; cf. to talk the hind leg off a donkey at talk v. 10, to talk (someone's) ear off at talk v. 10(b).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored [verb (intransitive)] > be or become wearisome or tedious > specifically by tedious or repetitive talk

to harp upon, on (of), a, one, the same (etc.) string?1531

to bore (any one's) ears1641

to —— a person's head off1829

1829 T. Hood in Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 5 Dec. 396/2 You'll powder both our heads off..with its puff.

1852 R. Bulwer Lytton School for Husbands I. vi. 146 That's the way with the whole sex, they'll talk a man's head off.

1894 G. B. Shaw Let. 3 Dec. (1965) I. 467 You could, at your worst, talk the heads off most of them.

1910 J. Farnol Broad Highway (1911) ii. ii. 234 He will be swearing your head off in the next ten minutes or so.

1947 Denton (Texas) Record-Chron. 3 Aug. ii. 8/3 You can get together with nutritionists and poultrymen and they'll argue your head off convincing you that [etc.].

2008 S. Venkatesh Gang Leader for Day ii. 53 As long as I didn't get too nosy..they talked my head off.

单词	to —— a person's head off
释义	> as lemmas to —— a person's head off (i) to —— a person's head off and variants: to —— until a person is exhausted, or to an unbearable or wearisome degree; (later also in weakened use) to —— with great vigour or intensity, at great length, etc.Esp. with verbs of speaking; cf. to talk the hind leg off a donkey at talk v. 10, to talk (someone's) ear off at talk v. 10(b). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored [verb (intransitive)] > be or become wearisome or tedious > specifically by tedious or repetitive talk to harp upon, on (of), a, one, the same (etc.) string?1531 to bore (any one's) ears1641 to —— a person's head off1829 1829 T. Hood in Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 5 Dec. 396/2 You'll powder both our heads off..with its puff. 1852 R. Bulwer Lytton School for Husbands I. vi. 146 That's the way with the whole sex, they'll talk a man's head off. 1894 G. B. Shaw Let. 3 Dec. (1965) I. 467 You could, at your worst, talk the heads off most of them. 1910 J. Farnol Broad Highway (1911) ii. ii. 234 He will be swearing your head off in the next ten minutes or so. 1947 Denton (Texas) Record-Chron. 3 Aug. ii. 8/3 You can get together with nutritionists and poultrymen and they'll argue your head off convincing you that [etc.]. 2008 S. Venkatesh Gang Leader for Day ii. 53 As long as I didn't get too nosy..they talked my head off. extracted from headn.¹ < as lemmas
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