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单词 to tie in knots
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to tie (a person) (up) in(to) knots (or a knot)
a. Something intricate, involved, or difficult to trace out or explain; a tangle or difficulty; a knotty point or problem. Gordian knot: see Gordian adj. 1. to tie (a person) (up) in(to) knots (or a knot): to confuse or nonplus (someone).
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult problem
knotc1000
a bone to pick (also gnaw)c1450
dark, hard sentence1535
nut1540
Gordian knot1579
nodus1728
teaser1759
stumper1807
Chinese puzzlec1815
facer1828
sticker1849
grueller1856
stumbler1863
twister1879
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun] > knotty point, crux
knotc1000
the milk in the coconut1840
crux1852
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > perplex, nonplus [phrase]
to bring (drive, or put) to one's wit's end1377
to cast (also throw) a mist before a person's eyes?a1475
to set (also run) on ground1600
to make butter and cheese of1642
to put to the gaze1646
philogrobolized in one's brains1653
to strike all of (on) a heap1711
to blow, cast, throw stour in one's eyes1823
knot1860
to give (one) furiously to think1910
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 386 get her is oðer cnotta ealswa earfoðe, þæt is, ‘Nan man ne astihð to heofenum, buton se ðe of heofenum astah’.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 1157 Ich habbe uncnut summe of þeos cnotti cnotten.
c1400 Rom. Rose 4698 Unto hym that love wole flee, The knotte may unclosed bee.
1638–48 G. Daniel Eclog. iii. 185 All the Subtle Knotts, which crabbed Heads Have twist.
1676 W. Temple Let. to Sir J. Williamson in Lett. in Wks. (1731) II. 397 This Knot is of those that must be cut through, and cannot be untied.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 520 Knots worthy of solution, which alone A Deity could solve.
1860 Baily's Monthly Mag. Aug. 368 Never before..were bowlers or fielders so ‘tied up in a knot’.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxvii. 719 The death of John cut the knot.
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. xx. 212 'Tis one of the greatest knots in service—the smoke question.
1888 A. G. Steel in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 167 The team was beginning to get tied up into a knot.
1957 D. Robins Noble One (1960) xx. 191 He is tied up in knots. He's fighting himself as well as me.
1974 I. Murdoch Sacred & Profane Love Machine 154 I could tie you into such knots, but I won't bother... You won't tell me the truth even now.
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