| 单词 | to —— the life out of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto —— the life out of Phrases P1. Forming phrases with prepositions in the sense ‘alive’. (Chiefly in the early variant form live.) a. in life. Also †with life. Scottish in later use. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records the phrase in life as still in widespread use in Scotland in 1958. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > opposed to dead in the land of the livingc825 livingeOE lifeeOE quickeOE aliveOE livishc1175 alivesc1300 in lifea1325 with lifea1325 of life1392 breathinga1398 undeada1400 upon lifea1413 live1531 lifesome1582 undeceased1589 vivec1590 breathful1593 vivificent1598 on the hoof1818 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1364 To fechen ysaac hom a wif Of his kinde, ðe ðor was in lif. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 6492 Atte he was liuande and in life sulde be. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1839 Na creatur in liue[Fairf. on liue]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11834 Miȝt no mon wiþ lif[Fairf. in life, Gött. on lijf] haue more. 1795 R. Burns Let. 3 July in Wks. (2021) IV. 391 So e'en to preserve the poor body in life I think I maun wed him tomorrow. 1817 Scots Mag. May 395 He was carried with life to the Royal Infirmary, where he died next day. 1844 W. Jamie Muse of Mearns 98 I was o'er at my uncle's wife, Wha's nae thocht lang to be in life. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xvi I counsel ye in all friendliness to let the minister do his best to keep her in life. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > opposed to dead in the land of the livingc825 livingeOE lifeeOE quickeOE aliveOE livishc1175 alivesc1300 in lifea1325 with lifea1325 of life1392 breathinga1398 undeada1400 upon lifea1413 live1531 lifesome1582 undeceased1589 vivec1590 breathful1593 vivificent1598 on the hoof1818 1392 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 47 William and Issabel, or the tane of thaim qwhey sa than be off lywe, sal frely [etc.]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 7934 Be god of liue[Vesp. o-liue, Gött. a-liue] he square his aþ. 1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 70/1 If they ben of lyff. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 293 Wes nane off lyve yat hym ne dred. a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 299 All men of lyve wakythe hym nowght. a1658 Little Musgrave x, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 244 As thou art a man of life. ΚΠ a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2834 Moyses..askede him [sc. Jethro] leue to faren and sen If hise breðere of liues ben. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9676 In al þis werld left [na] ma in liues [Trin. Cambr. on lyues]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8373 (MED) Þou has in liues Mani childer wit þi wiues. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6794 Your barns haf na faders in liues [Fairf. on liuis]. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Num. (Claud.) xxxi. 15 Moyses..axode hwi hi heoldon ða wifmen to life..& het hi ða acwellan ealle ða wif. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 629 And leten [weren] ðe oðre to liue gon. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1022 (MED) Wheþer our to liue go, He haþ anouȝ of þis. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 5180 Bot I ne kepped na langer atte liue. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > opposed to dead in the land of the livingc825 livingeOE lifeeOE quickeOE aliveOE livishc1175 alivesc1300 in lifea1325 with lifea1325 of life1392 breathinga1398 undeada1400 upon lifea1413 live1531 lifesome1582 undeceased1589 vivec1590 breathful1593 vivificent1598 on the hoof1818 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 1030 Þe best harpour vpon lyue. c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) l. 279 (MED) Es noghte a lorde in þat lande appone lyfe leuede. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11275 Ne ȝou sechis no socour..Of no lede vppon lyue. P2. With for. ΚΠ c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4711 Nulle we þe bilæuen for liue ne for dæðen. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 1634 (MED) Ich not to hwan þu breist þi brod. Liues ne deaþes ne deþ hit god. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 1532 Where is Gij?.. Liues or deþ[es], do him come. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2072 (MED) Mi ladi lengeþ him wiþ for lif or for dede. a1425 (a1400) Titus & Vespasian l. 841 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1903) 111 297 For lyffe ne deþ nyl I reche, To wende wel ferre þe bote to feche. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 692 Rygh swich as ȝe feldyn wel or wo..The same wolde I fele lyf or deth. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) clxx. 675 For the loue of Florence he forsoke his owne lawe and his countre, then he sayde to Florence, ‘syr, my body and goodes I abandon to you in suche wyse that I shall neuer leue you for lyfe nor deth.’ b. (a) for (one's) life (also for dear life, etc.): as if, or in order to, save one's life. Cf. dear adj.1 5c, for prep. 10c.Also hyperbolically in trivial use: (I cannot) for my life, (I cannot) for the life of me. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [phrase] > so as to preserve one's life for (one's) lifec1275 c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 1078 Þat he ne miȝte for his liue Iso þat man wiþ hire speke. 1585 R. Lane Let. 8 Sept. in Amer. Antiquarian Soc. (1860) 4 14 [He] purposed..to have broughte mee, by indyrecte meanes and moost untrewe syrmyses, to the questione for my lyfe. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 76 For my life I could neuer attaine to any perfect knowledge thereof. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 6 I saw our Men..rowing for Life to the Ship. 1774 Dialogue between Southern Delegate & Spouse 8 Wou'd instead of Delegates, they'd sent Delegates Wives; Heavens! we cou'dn't have bungled it so for our Lives! 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xi. ii. 268 Not knowing how for the life of him to part with those flattering hopes. 1813 Ld. Byron Giaour (ed. 3) 10 Away—away—for life he rides. 1831 L. E. Landon Romance & Reality (1848) 354 We must row for our lives. 1843 W. T. Thompson Major Jones' Chron. Pineville 93 He..was climbing for dear life. 1872 B. Jerrold London ii. 23 Hard-visaged men, breathlessly competing for ‘dear life’. 1880 W. E. Gladstone in Daily News 16 Mar. 2/8 I cannot, for the life of me, see why it should be struck out. 1921 H. Crane Let. 17 Oct. (1965) 68 The man who would preserve them [sc. feelings] must duck and camouflage for dear life. 1946 T. H. White Mistress Masham's Repose v. 35 Immediately afterwards she spoiled the effect, by turning round and running for dear life. 1974 J. Gardner Return of Moriarty 54 For the life of me, I cannot remember his exact name. 2006 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 78/1 Bush is a ‘dry drunk’—someone who quit one day and is just holding on for dear life. (b) for (also †upon) one's life: on a capital charge. Frequently to be tried (also on trial) for one's life (see also for prep. 10b). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [phrase] > on a capital charge for (also upon) one's life1594 1594 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1842) II. 126 Ye..ar..accusit on your lyffis of..away taking..of George, sumtyme Erle of Huntlie. 1643 ‘F. Greville’ Five Yeares King James 70 You have here before you Robert Earle to be tryed for his life. 1674 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 317 Judg Torner's son, who was tryed for his life last November for killing a man. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 586 He was not, as they said, now in a criminal Court upon his life. 1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. xxx Pizarro..ordered that prince to be tried for his life, for having concubines, and being an idolater. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 223 Rosewell..had been tried for his life by Jeffreys. 1873 P. V. Smith Hist. Eng. Inst. iii. viii. 214 A person tried for his life might..challenge and strike off the panel as many as thirty-five. 1921 J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly Fray Luis de Leon iii. 80 When being tried for his life, the merriest of men does not dwell on the innate absurdity of things. 1966 A. Sachs Jail Diary iii. 30 With her husband Dennis on trial for his life for supporting the underground, she was hoping for some peace. 2003 R. Lacey Street Bible 376 Steve's on trial for his life and takes them through a potted history of couriers roadblocked by the men in suits. c. Law. for (two, three, etc.) lives: until the death of the last survivor of (two, three, etc.) specified persons (with reference to the length of time a lease, grant, gift, etc., is to remain in force ). Cf. also a (new) lease of life at lease n.3 2. Now historical. ΚΠ 1576 Act 18 Eliz. c. 6 §1 That no Master, Provoste [etc.]..shall make anye Lease for lief lieves or yeeres, of anie ferme [etc.]. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 37 As men buy Leases, for three lives and downward. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables (1708) xci. 106 A Gentleman that had an Estate for Lives, and two of his Tenants in the Lease... The Man..had Poyson'd himself, and the Revenge upon his Landlord was the Defeating him of his Estate by Destroying the Last Life in the Lease. 1731 Phœnix Britannicus 86 Sir John Munson..to settle 50l. per annum for two lives. 1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 71 The disposal of farms for three lives is generally by what are provincially termed surveys. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 156 He obtained a pension of four thousand pounds a year for two lives on the post office. He had made great sums out of the estates of traitors. 1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 77 §7 If any land is comprised in a lease for a life or lives. 1920 S. Williston & C. M. Lewis Law Contracts 1770 That was a suit to enforce a contract assignees were entitled to recover the to purchase an estate for two lives. 1999 Oxoniensia 63 27 Oswald leases land at Golder in Pyrton to his man Aethelmund for two lives. d. for life: for the remaining period of the person's life (both in general and legal contexts). for term of (one's) life: see term n. Phrases 9.president-for-life: see president n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxiii. 368 Hawiað be gehwylcum, for þan ðe oft getimað yfelum tela for life. c1485 ( J. Fortescue Articles of Advice (BL Add. 48031) in Governance of Eng. (1885) App. B. 351 That no patente be made..for terme of lyfe, or yeres countervailing terme of lyffe.] 1591 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1998) (modernized text) XI. 64 To Bridget my wife my house wherein I dwell with the oyster layne belonging for life. a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1636) ix. 37 If tenant in taile discontinue, and the discontinuee make a lease for life. 1640 Certaine Considerations touching Pacification & Edification Church of Eng. 17 Their Office is elective and for life, and not patrimoniall or hereditary. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 15 The Administration of this Bank is for Life. 1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) i. 5 Nymphs..For Life predestin'd to the Gnomes Embrace. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 181 Here I counted to set up my rest for life. 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. IV. 304 To the use of himself for life, remainder to his wife for life. 1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. (1887) 321 Newcastle offered him..the Duchy of Lancaster for life. 1895 J. A. Strahan Gen. View Law of Property (1908) 131 When joint tenants for life sever, each takes a tenancy in severalty or in common for his own life in his share. 1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana (1962) 48 He's yours for life. 1967 Appraisal Terminol. & Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 5) 55 Demise, a transfer; a lease; a transfer of an estate to another for years, for life, or at will. 2006 T. Parks in Granta Summer 169 It was an opportunity his wife and parents wouldn't let him pass up: a meal ticket for life. This is how a railway job is seen. e. for once in your (also my, etc.) life: on this single occasion in your (my, etc.) life, exceptionally (chiefly hyperbolically). Cf. for once at once adv. 9. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > infrequently or it rarely happens [phrase] > for once in your life for once in your (also my, etc.) life1685 1685 S. Wesley Maggots 126 The black old Gentleman..ow'd thee a spight for once in thy life courting virtuous Women. 1693 J. Bancroft Henry II iii. ii. 30 Why you might do a good thing for once in your life. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 234 Perhaps it might not be amiss to satisfy my Curiosity for once in my Life. 1799 C. Smith What is She? iii. 37 This is some trick of Lady Zephyrine's—Nay, then, her Ladyship shall for once in her life, hear a little truth. 1846 ‘Mrs. Markham’ Hist. Eng. (ed. 12) xxxvi. 402 George. I think, mamma, that the fire of London was a happy event for the king, as it made him exert himself, for once in his life, to do some good. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. iv. 30 Has not the tone of his answers sufficiently proved to her that, for once in her life, Sarah had spoken unvarnished truth. 1902 V. Jacob Sheep-stealers viii Bumpett stared blankly. For once in his life he was quite taken aback. 1964 ‘S. Woods’ Trusted like Fox viii. 79 Mr. Justice Conroy..for once in his life owned himself puzzled. 2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 114 For once in my life I'm pleased to get to my bed, for all the good it does me, because that night and for months after it I have a terrible dream. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] deadOE lifelessOE of lifeOE storvena1225 dead as a door-nail1362 ydead1387 stark deadc1390 colda1400 bypast1425 perishedc1440 morta1450 obita1450 unquickc1449 gone?a1475 dead and gone1482 extinct1483 departed1503 bygonea1522 amort1546 soulless1553 breathless1562 parted1562 mortified1592 low-laid1598 disanimate1601 carcasseda1603 defunct1603 no morea1616 with God1617 death-stricken1618 death-strucken1622 expired1631 past itc1635 incinerated1657 stock-dead1662 dead as a herring1664 death-struck1688 as dead as a nit1789 (as) dead as mutton1792 low1808 laid in the locker1815 strae-dead1820 disanimated1833 ghosted1834 under the daisies1842 irresuscitable1843 under the sod1847 toes up1851 dead and buried1863 devitalized1866 translated1869 dead and done (for, with)1886 daid1890 bung1893 (as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904 six feet under1942 brown bread1969 OE Ælfric Homily (Trin. Cambr. B.15.34) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 533 Se ðe bote underfehð, and he beo syððan hræðe þæs of life, he sceal to reste gewiss. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 9057 Þeo cudden Kinbeline þat his fader wes of liue. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 12478 Ioseph..wende þe maistir were of lyue. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 2424 Þan wald Leyr haf ben of lyue. P4. on (also †in, †of, †under, upon) pain of life: subject to the penalty of death. In early use with possessive adjective; occasionally also with and limb and other nouns. Cf. on pain of death at pain n.1 1b. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [adverb] > subject to penalty of death on (also in, of, under, upon) pain of lifec1330 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 3650 It was forboden..Ich man bi way forto gon..Opon pain of her liue. c1400 Life St. Anne (Minn.) (1928) 1378 Of payne of lyf & lym he bade. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 1217 (MED) Þe myche tresour..Luke it be done and delte to my dere pople That none pleyn of theire parte o peyne of ȝour lyfez. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. x. sig. c.viiiv Cease of suche busynesse, in peyne of thy lyue. 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War ii. v. sig. I iiii They did defende vpon payne of lyfe, that no man shulde propone nor put into deliberation to take of the sayd thousande talentes. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 134 You cousin Hereford vpon paine of life, Til twice fiue summers haue enricht our fields, Shall not regreete our faire dominions. View more context for this quotation 1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 50 Enioyning them vpon paine of life to take no other sort of reward. 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples i. 77 That all Cavaliers, under paine of life should deliver their Armes. 1687 A. Behn Amours Philander & Silvia 216 She ordered her Porter to be call'd, and gave him Orders, upon pain of Life, not to tell of my being in the House. 1729 F. Midon Hist. Masaniello 195 Long live the King of Spain, and let none from henceforth upon Pain of Life obey Masaniello. 1765 T. Mortimer New Hist. Eng. II. 7/1 It was also enacted, that none should, upon pain of life and limb, read the Scriptures in English. 1834 W. Betham Orig. & Hist. Constit. Eng. iv. 87 [Leicester] ordained..that no one should bear arms, without the king's license, on pain of life and limb. 1928 P. Haworth Elizabethan Story-bk. 62 Above all things, he should not fail to await his coming besides the churchyard of St. Francis', and upon pain of life to keep his intent in silence. 1992 F. R. P. Akehurst tr. P. de Beaumanoir Coutumes de Beauvaisis lx. 622 The count can and should take the quarrel into his own hands and forbid them on pain of life and property to do harm to each other. P5. a. to the life: with lifelike representation of or resemblance to the original (said esp. of a drawing or painting); with fidelity to nature; with exact reproduction of every point or detail. †Formerly with of. †to set oneself out to the life: to adorn oneself with the utmost pains (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify the person [verb (reflexive)] preenc1395 prunec1395 prank1546 to set oneself out to the life1604 adonize1611 briska1625 tight1775 to make up1778 tighten1786 smarten1796 pretty1868 tart1938 pansy1946 sharpen1952 primp1959 the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > closely (of resemblance) > with lifelike representation livelyc1405 livinglyc1475 quickly1477 to the quick1531 livelily?1565 to the life1604 naively1640 1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. 247 Wherein..the very Site, Fabricke, Strength, Policie, Dignitie and Affections of the cittie were all laide downe to life. 1606 No-body & Some-body sig. D4 Let him be straight imprinted to the life: His picture shall be set on euery stall. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 19 To frame of their own heads as it were with wax a kinde of Mimick Bishop limm'd out to the life of a dead Priesthood. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. §12 The shadow or dark representation of that which was to be drawn afterwards to the greatest life. 1678 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (rev. ed.) xix. 268 To reflect upon a Lady..for having set her self out to the life in order to some evil design. 1702 in J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne (1882) I. 283 Effigies..Curiously done in Wax to the Life. a1758 A. Ramsay Some of Contents Ever-green (1761) vii The girnand wyfe, Fleming and Scot haif painted to the lyfe. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. vii. 281 I can take off a cat to the life. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. x. 199 Where is the coquette that cannot scream to the life? 1887 H. Caine Deemster I. vii. 137 The young rogue, who spoke the home-spun to the life. 1941 ‘N. Blake’ Case of Abominable Snowman iv. 33 She resembled to the life the stately, arch, sorely put-upon hostess of Animal Crackers. 1988 S. Gray How's that for telling 'em, Fat Lady? ii. 60 There he was, Nathan to the life, sitting at a table with various foods spread in front of him. b. after (also from, †by) the life: (drawn, painted, etc.) from the living model, rather than copied or imagined. Also in extended use. Cf. sense 7. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [phrase] > from living model after (also from, by) the life1606 1606 H. Peacham Art of Drawing 20 The ouerlipp is best showen by a shadow cast ouer the crosse line as you see: which shadowe and crosse line if you drawe by the life muste bee hit at an heyres breadth. 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 38 But to proceed, Albert [Durer] being very young set forth our Lady, some designes of Horses after the life, [etc.]. 1689 London Gaz. No. 2420/4 Two Medals, One of his Highness the Prince of Orange, done by the Life. 1714 R. Hunter Androboros i. ii. 6 Keeper. The Rogue is a good Painter. Deputy. He draws from the Life, I assure you. 1766 I. Bickerstaff Plain Dealer ii. ii. 24 I draw from the life, cousin; paint every one in their proper colours. 1816 Dance of Death 7 He was drawing a figure after the life. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 312 The study from ‘the Life’. 1896 G. Saintsbury Hist. 19th Cent. Lit. i. 5 It is not true, as Wordsworth and others have said, that Dryden himself could not draw from the life. 1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove xxxvii. 268 There is Audubon's plate, painted from the life with every nacreous gleam of a pinion. 1962 A. Brookner tr. J. P. Crespelle Fauves v. 156 Forcing them to spend many tedious hours copying plaster casts before allowing them to draw from the life. 2005 New Statesman (Nexis) 4 July The Prime Minister does not appear in this magnificent collection of 60 Rowson cartoons, drawn from the life at the tables of the Gay Hussar. c. (a) as large as (†the) life and variants: lifesize; (in extended use, sometimes humorously) (present) in reality, in actual fact. Also in catchphrase as large as life, and twice as natural. See also larger-than-life adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [phrase] > life-size as large as (the) life1634 as large as life, and twice as natural1836 the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > completely or without deficiency as large as life, and twice as natural1836 1634 I. Jones & W. Davenant Temple of Love sig. A3v All these figures were in their naturall colours bigger than the life. 1641 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 36 A glorious crucifix..greater than the life. 1759 S. Johnson Idler 31 Mar. 97 The picture is..bigger than the life. 1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) I. vii. 145 The figures are less than life, and about half lengths. 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. i. 12 A light flimsy kind of fan-painting as large as the life. 1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 129 A beautiful piece of clockwork representing Apollo with his lyre... It was as large as life. 1822 M. Edgeworth Let. 9 Mar. (1971) 368 We 6 went together to see Belzonis tomb—the model first and afterwards the tomb as large as life. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) 1st Ser. 143 As large as life and twice as nateral. 1898 G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession ii. i. 176 This is George Crofts, as large as life and twice as natural. 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 46 Doc Bingham was sitting as large as life in a rocking chair. 1977 J. Pepper What Thing to Say 17 As like as not be next week he'll be haughlin' away intil town as large as life and twice as natural. 2004 H. Strachan Make Skyf, Man! xvii. 206 There in the Visitor's Room large as life and every bit as beautiful, stands me ol' chum. (b) larger than (†the) life: bigger than lifesize; (now usually, in extended use) having a more powerful personality than is natural or expected, displaying exaggerated or extreme characteristics. See also larger-than-life adj. ΚΠ 1695 W. Congreve Let. 10 July in J. Dennis Lett. Several Occasions (1696) 88 The distance of the Stage requires the Figure represented, to be something larger than the Life. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 302. ⁋8 Love or Flattery might perhaps be thought to have drawn the Picture larger than Life. 1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy II. xxviii. 61 He is larger than the life, cloathed in a magnificent pallium. 1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire xvii. 284 A statue larger than life, of pure crystal, was displayed to his sight. 1897 Times 8 Feb. 12/3 It is acted upon what may be called a..lavish scale. All the dramatis personæ are somewhat larger than life. 1955 D. Eden Darling Clementine (1959) i. 12 I'm sorry to be so lacking in melodrama, but honestly your ancestors were probably painted larger than life. 1999 Alumnus Apr. 13/3 A device under study can also be rendered larger than life, enabling the observer to physically walk inside the image to observe various effects. 2008 Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 22/2 The characters are larger than life yet credible. ΚΠ 1807 R. C. Hoare Tour Ireland 235 Two curious old portraits..the one of King Henry VIII, the other of Anna Bullen, small life. P6. within an inch of one's life (see inch n.1 2a.) P7. In asseverative phrases, exclamations, and oaths. a. by (also †for, †of, on) my life and variants. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > with reference to life by (also for, of, on) my lifec1225 (God's) lifelikinsa1644 OE Beowulf (2008) 2131 Þa se ðeoden mec ðine life healsode hreohmod, þæt ic on holma geþring eorlscipe efnde.] c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 147 (MED) ‘For mi lif,’ quoð hire feader, ‘þe schal laðin his luue.’ a1333 William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 18 Ich segge..Þys men and eke þis wyues, Þat hi ne hebbe hare oȝe child [i.e. at baptism], By hare quicke lyues. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 2719 At mi gaincum, bi mi lijf [Vesp. if i haue lijf; L. vita comite], A son sal haue sare þi wijf. ?1516 T. More Mery Gest By my lyfe I can not tell you whan whan an hatter wyll go smater In phylosophy Or a pedlar waxe a medlar in theolegy. 1562 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tounge (new ed.) i, in Wks. sig. Civ Hold fast whan ye haue it (quoth she) by my lyfe. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C2v She smiles, now for my life his minde is changd. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. D2v Ile holde my life, Your minde was to change maidenhead for wife. 1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. G1 Of my life we are come to the birth of some notable knauery. 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois i. 10 The Duke mistakes him (on my life) for some Knight of the new edition. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 150 By my life, she will doe as I doe. View more context for this quotation 1683 G. Meriton York-shire Dial. (1684) 71 You are unsawncy, I think by my life. 1723 C. Johnson Love in Forest iv. 48 By my Life she will do as I do. a1766 F. Sheridan Hist. Nourjahad (1767) 126 Dost thou call these beauties, said Nourjahad, angrily? By my life they are a pack of as awkward damsels as ever I beheld. 1799 J. Boaden Aurelio & Miranda i. ii. 10 By my life I swear, If any indirect and treacherous means Have warp'd my sister Agnes from her duty—. 1853 E. Bennett Clara Moreland xxiii. 278 Ha! by my life!.. I see! we have taken too much for granted. 1894 A. Douglas tr. O. Wilde Salomé 50 By my life, by my crown, by my gods. Whatsoever thou shalt desire I will give it thee. 1932 R. Macaulay They were Defeated i. vi. 47 And, on my life, I never had a pupil who did me such credit. 1962 F. Norman Guntz i. 7 My life (I thought) what chance am I going to have if I produce this letter. 1999 Glasgow Herald (Nexis) 30 Apr. 24 The neophyte holds a revolver in one hand..and swears to defend Serbia ‘by the sun that warms, by the earth that feeds me, by the blood of my forefathers, by God, by my honour and by my life’. b. God's life and variants (see Cod n.4, Gad n.2); also elliptically life. Cf. also 'Slife int. Now archaic.Gad's, God's, od's, ud's my life: see at the first word; Z'life: see Zlid n. ΚΠ 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Q Nay Gods life, hee'ld be content (so he were well rid out of his companie) to pay him fiue for one at his next meeting him in Paules. View more context for this quotation 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore sig. G3v Cods life I was neere so thrumbd since I was a gentleman. 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. Dv Life, sh'as the Spirit of foure great parishes. 1693 J. Bancroft Henry II v. 46 Ha! who comes yonder! the Queen! Gods Life, there's Villany, I'll House presently and secure my Charge. 1792 J. Richardson Fugitive iv. ii. 55 Gads life, ma'am, don't ask so many questions; I understand you well enough, Miss—You would insinuate that I am a helpless old fellow—that you can see no great use in my living. a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) v. ii in Wks. (1821) II. 133 Gad's life, ma'am, not at all. 1860 tr. J. Sandeau Mlle. de la Seigliere iv. ii. 62 But, od's life! monsieur, when one has the honor of receiving the Marquis de La Seigliere beneath one's roof, it's not the thing to serve him with notice to quit through a sheriff's officer. 1891 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 444/2 When the idle varlets of a king have power so to deal in a tradesman's shop, what is broken beside his earthenware? God's life, the charter of a nation! 1910 M. J. Cawein Cabestaing ii. ii, in Shadow Garden 234 What means thy message, Roussillon!—Art ill?—God's life! I was retired! Why have me up! 2009 C. C. Humphreys Vlad (2011) xviii. 130 ‘Two months with nuns, praying and stitching, stitching and praying. God's life,’ she laughed. c. not on your life: not on any account, by no means. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > negation > [adverb] > no > certainly not for nothinglOE not (to do something) for the worlda1375 for foul or fairc1405 not for a moment1785 not on your life1791 not for Joe (Joseph)1844 no siree1845 not much1871 a thousand times, no1896 not on your tintype1900 not for all the tea in China1937 1791 T. Holcroft School for Arrogance iii. 43 Edm. The Count your brother?—My sister, my family, must be informed. Lydia. Not on your life, Edmund. 1896 W. C. Gore in Inlander Jan. 149 ‘Say, Jack, are you going to bolt?’ ‘Not on your life.’ 1905 N.Y. Evening Post 19 Aug. 2 The congressman was asked if there had been any gambling during the trip. ‘Not on your life,’ he said. 1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft iv. 62 Say that you are lost, properly bushed. You come across a river. Well, that river is not bushed—not on your life it isn't. 1972 ‘H. Carmichael’ Naked to Grave v. 56 ‘Why not get in touch with your lawyer?’ ‘Not on your life!.. It would be a tacit admission of my guilt.’ 1992 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 77 1 Are these just isolated cases of mob hysteria? Not on your life. d. you bet your life (see bet v. d); to bet one's sweet life (see sweet adj. 8d). P8. In proverbs and proverbial phrases. a. plural. With reference to the continuation of or tenacity for life, esp. through adversity. Cf. nine lives at nine adj. 3c. ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Gii v A woman hath nyne lyues lyke a cat. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) v. 66 I believe now a father Hath as many lives as a mother. 1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 242 'Tis thought that Cats have got nine lives: Some husbands think so of their wives. 1859 F. L. M'Clintock Voy. ‘Fox’ x. 176 We are only now to commence the interesting part of our voyage. It is to be hoped the poor ‘Fox’ has many more lives to spare. 1999 M. Thorne Eight Minutes Idle (2001) xvi. 270 I'm sure Mother Nature must've fitted cats with an upscale survival system. Why else would people talk about them having nine lives? b. while there's life there's hope and similar phrases. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > expression of hope [phrase] perish the thought (also man, name)1526 while there's life there's hope1539 good (also braw, etc.) time cominga1780 1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. E.ivv The sycke person whyle he hath lyfe, hath hope [L. Aegroto dum anima est spes est]. 1671 J. Crowne Juliana v. 56 Madam, he breathes, and whilst there's life, there's hope. 1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage 288 As long as there is Life there's Hope. 1727 J. Gay Fables I. xxvii. 93 While there is life, there's hope, he cry'd. 1808 Monthly Pantheon 1 366/1 Whilst there is life you know there are hopes! 1857 J. T. Trowbridge Neighbor Jackwood i. 17 This 'll never do. Where there 's life there 's hope. Only think you can, and you can, you know. 1878 J. Payn By Proxy I. i. 12 There are years of life before you yet: and where there's life there's hope; the chances of promotion, a stroke of luck at the races—. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber ii. ii. 301 While there is life there is hope is evidently Nelly's creed. 1955 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 55 1215/1 I think it's a nurse's job to feel that where there is life there is hope. 2007 Irish Times (Nexis) 1 Dec. 3 Where there's life, there's hope... We don't want to think about the dark side. c. anything for a quiet life: expressing concession or resigned agreement, to ensure one is not disturbed. ΚΠ 1620 (title) Any thing for a quiet life, or, The Married mans bondage to a curst wife. To the tune of Oh no, no, no, not yet, or, Ile neuer loue thee more. 1800 M. Edgeworth Parent's Assistant (ed. 3) VI. 123 Any thing for a quiet life. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlii. 463 Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said ven he took the sitivation at the light-house. 1968 ‘L. Marshall’ Blood on Blotter v. 40 I'm a born appeaser... Anything for a quiet life. 2002 S. Brett Torso in Town (2003) xiii. 100 And Mum... well, she just agrees with him all the time. Anything for a quiet life. d. life is too short: there is not time (for something or to do something); time is too precious (typically used to indicate that the speaker feels there are better uses of one's time).Also in various aphorisms, as life is too short to hold grudges, life is too short to stuff a mushroom, etc. ΚΠ a1628 F. Greville Alaham iii. iv, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 50 Nutrix. Canst thou doe worse? Hala. Else to my selfe I sinne Life is too short. 1686 F. Fane Sacrifice iii. i. 37 For life's too short for Pleasure. 1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. v. 80 Life is too short, and Time is too precious, to read every new Book quite over in order to find that it is not worth the reading. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 185 Life is too short to be long about the forms of it. 1832 Athenæum 26 May 341/1 One of them advised our worthy host..to visit that theatre. ‘I would with pleasure,’ said he, ‘but life's too short.’ 1853 Littell's Living Age June 738/2 Gad, sir, life's too short for that sort of humbug. 1873 Advocate of Peace Apr. 32/1 Life is too short to be frowned away. 1908 Internat. Molders' Jrnl. Mar. 191/2 ‘Life is too short’ to hold ‘grudges’. 1961 P. White Riders in Chariot viii. 232 Only the civil servants are Roman Catholics here... Arch and me are Methoes, except we don't go; life is too short. 1975 S. Conran Superwoman 100/2 Make it clear you are no longer the enterprising cook that once you were when newly wed and showing off. Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. 2007 Independent 11 Dec. 18/2 Have a go at everything. Try everything once, and if you like it, try it again. Don't be afraid of newness—life's too short. e. your money or your life: see money n. Phrases 2a(g). f. there's life in the old dog yet and variants: an assertion of continuing competence, strength, etc., notwithstanding evidence to the contrary. ΚΠ 1840 S. Grey in New Sporting Mag. Feb. 76 Men are to be found who would kill the old hound, And his long years of service forget; But a hand I'll ne'er lend to destroy my old friend, ‘For the life's in the Old Dog yet.’] 1840 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 1 Feb. 2/5 The New Sporting Magazine for February 1840... Contents:—‘There's Life in the Old Dog yet!’ 1852 P. L. Simmonds Sir John Franklin & Arctic Regions 356 Sir John Ross, we know, went out in the Victory to Regent Inlet, and was frozen in for four years, and all the world gave him up for lost—but ‘there's life in the old dog yet’, as the song has it. 1899 E. L. Godkin 15 Nov. in Life & Lett. (1907) xviii. 240 As to my health ‘there is life in the old dog yet’. I went abroad in May completely broken up, but the doctor there assured me there was nothing wrong but having worked too hard and too long. 1922 H. V. Esmond Law Divine ii. 45 Bill. But—but Dad's married—besides he's thirty-eight. He's much too old to go messing about with widows. Ted (chuckling). There's life in the old dog yet. 1940 Time 15 July 49/1 Tallulah Bankhead demonstrated that there's life in Pinero's old girl yet. 2000 Truck & Driver Nov. 11/1 She might be long in the tooth but clearly there's life in the old girl yet, as she can still be found at work shunting scrap trailers. P9. a. in life: ‘in the world’, at all. Chiefly in (there is) nothing in life. ΚΠ 1725 M. Davys Lady's Tale in Wks. II. 161 There is nothing in Life so impertinent as the offer of a Heart, when one does not care to accept on't. 1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. x. 278 There was nothing in Life he attended to more earnestly than the Behaviour of those Men, whose want of Education shewed more openly, and with less disguise, what their Natures were. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. x. 246 There is nothing in life so intolerable as pretending to think differently from other people. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlix. 534 ‘Hallo!’ responded that gentleman, looking over the side of the chaise with all the coolness in life. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 5 One who owes to College endowments all that he has and is in life. 1900 Academy 21 July 55/2 Get drunk as often as you can, and stay so long as you can, for there's nothing in life half so profitable. 1931 ‘G. Trevor’ Murder at School i. 12 So far he seemed to have done nothing in life except win the Newdigate. 1961 A. Sillitoe Key to Door (1962) i. ii. 17 He spat forcefully at the fire-bars and his spit didn't sizzle with the alacrity to which he was accustomed, thereby reinforcing his often-said conviction that nothing in life could be relied on. 2006 Heat 18 Mar. 68 We thought there was nothing in life Paris Hilton liked to collect more than small, bug-eyed animals and wallet-stacked shipping heirs. b. Similatively: like life itself. ΚΠ 1738 H. Shorthose Serm. 201 Their good Name and Reputation..which when taken away, like Life itself, is never to be repaid. a1807 J. Newton Wks. (1811) VI. 248 The one, like life itself, is instantaneous and perfect at once, and takes place the moment the soul is born of God. 1891 G. Moore Impressions & Opinions 89 The illusion is complete; it is just, as the phrase goes, like life itself. 1977 S. Heath tr. R. Barthes Image, Music, Text 79 Narrative is international, transhistorical, transcultural: it is simply there, like life itself. 2001 J. Hamilton-Paterson Loving Monsters (2002) x. 194 ‘A passing malaise,’ he says. ‘Like life itself. You, on the other hand, have that tropicalised look.’ c. such is life!: an expression of resignation or acquiescence in things as they are; similarly that's life, life's like that. ΚΠ 1739 W. Broome Poems (ed. 2) 222 Such, such is Life! the Mark of Misery plac'd Between two Worlds, the future and the past. 1796 W. J. Temple Diary 7 Apr. (1929) 167 This interruption is very teasing; but such is Life. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxix. 347 ‘Sairey,’ says Mrs. Harris, ‘sech is life. Vich likeways is the hend of all things!’ 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ii. 6 With a mournful air—as who should say, ‘Here is another wretched creature come to dinner; such is life!’ 1903 ‘T. Collins’ (title) Such is life. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xvi. 227 That's life, my dear. We've got to go on to the finish anyhow, trusting that luck will turn. 1968 P. Dickinson Skin Deep vii. 140 No, it's..not the sort of thing that makes the newspapers... Ah well, life's like that. 1970 New Statesman 26 June 924/3 Whatever Ned Kelly was really like..he can scarcely have been like Mr Jagger... The famous last words ‘Such is life’—could as well have been ‘Pass the salt’. 2003 V. Blake Bloodless Shadow (2004) 44 Lots of people have nothing in common with their parents. That's life. You just have to get on with it. d. what a life!: an expression of discontent. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > expression of dissatisfaction [interjection] umpha1568 humh1603 what a life!1765 humph1815 1765 G. Colman tr. Terence Brothers iv. x, in tr. Terence Comedies 397 Jove, what a life [L. hancin vitam]! what manners! what distraction! A Bride just coming home without a portion. 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro II. xi. 101 What a life! what a dog's life! 1893 G. Gissing Odd Women III. x. 308 What a life! Every paltry trifle will make me uneasy, and if I discovered any fresh deceit, I should do something terrible. 1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement i. 49 She groaned as she stuck another sheet of paper into the typewriter. ‘What a life!’ 1972 G. Bell Villains Galore viii. 104 ‘Nothing ventured, nothing lost either,’ muttered Boote miserably. ‘Gawd! What a life!’ 2001 L. Rennison Knocked out by Nunga-nungas 49 All aloney. On my owney. It's bloody nippy noodles as well. What a life. e. this is the life: an expression of satisfaction. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > expression of content or satisfaction [interjection] ahaa1400 this is the life1775 1775 D. Garrick Bon Ton ii. i. 33 I know the law better than to be frighten'd with moon-shine; I wish that I was to live here all my days,—this is the life indeed! 1915 P. G. Wodehouse in Vanity Fair Jan. 37/3 ‘This is the life!’ I seem to hear her cry. ‘This is certainly the life.’ 1926 R. Macaulay Crewe Train xi. 200 Sitting at the open door and looking at the sea and sky. This was the life. 1980 M. Bail Homesickness i. 12 This is the life, aye?.. I'd say this is what it was all about. What do you reckon? 2001 L. Rennison Knocked out by Nunga-nungas 26 Forced to go and sit in the pub with the elderly loons (and James) to ‘celebrate.’ Yippeee! This is the life... (not). f. it's a great life (if you don't weaken) and variants: an ironic comment on the difficulties of one's situation. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > moral courage > stoicism > ironic comment on one's difficulties [phrase] it's a great life (if you don't weaken)1919 1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast v. 105 ‘Back to Glasgow to do some work for the cause,’ I said lightly. ‘Just so,’ he said, with a grin. ‘It's a great life if you don't weaken.’ 1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger xviii. 202 Oh, it was a great life, if you liked that sort of a life. 1998 T. Lynch Still Life in Milford 63 ‘A great life if you do not weaken! And if you do..’ you say. You turn and smile. g. how's life?: ‘how are things going?’, ‘how are you getting along?’ Also with various extensions. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > terms of greeting God give you good dayc1275 hail be thou (also ye)c1275 pax vobisc1275 how do ye?1570 (good, fair) time of day (to you)1597 how goes it?1598 I salute youa1616 savea1616 how do you find yourself?a1646 how-do-you-do1697 how do?1886 how are you popping (up)?1894 how's (less frequently how are) tricks?1915 how's (or how are) things (or, originally Australia and New Zealand, tricks?)1926 how's life?1931 1931 A. Huxley World of Light i. i. 10 Enid. But what's the matter, Hugo? Hugo. Nothing! Enid. It must be a nasty sort of nothing. How's life? 1960 L. Barrett tr. E. Verissimo Mexico ix. 254 I see in front of his stall a motionless Indian, his eyes closed, and I ask him:..‘How are things, friend? How's life going for you?’ 1991 J. Kelman Burn (1992) 202 So how's life treating ye? Aw fine, alright. Good, that's good. 2001 C. Hobson Black Earth City (2002) v. 60 He..pulled me over to a corner where two guys were leaning against the wall and rolling a joint. ‘Privyet , Lapochka, how's life? Hello, Horse.’ P10. In idiomatic collocation with nouns. a. a life for a life: an expression of the ‘law of retaliation’ (chiefly in biblical allusion: see lex talionis n. and an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) at eye n.1 Phrases 4a(a)). Also life for life, † life with life. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > in revenge or retaliation (for) [phrase] > equal retaliation an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth)a1400 life for lifea1400 OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) xxi. 23 Gyf..heo æfter ðam [sc. the beating] dead byð, sylle lyf wið life [L. animam pro anima]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1970 Þar gas na ransun bot liue for lijf. a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Exod. xxi. 24 If..a man smyte a womman with child and..if..hir deeth folwe, he shal ȝeld lijf for lijf. 1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xii. 101 Possest in purpois, lyfe for lyfe to cose. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. vii. 140 Their lives were a commutation for the lives of those that offered them, as who should say a life for a life. 1748 A. A. Sykes Ess. Sacrifices 129 The slaying the Animal before God..would not be deemed, the giving Life for Life, but it was the pouring the Blood, which is the Life, upon the Altar, which made the Atonement. 1843 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) July 317/2 He lived under the great law of nature; life for life and limb for limb..which Pharisaic interpretation perverted into a Divine rule of private conduct. 1964 Life 25 Dec. 56/2 The original ethical intent of Mosaic law also has been badly mangled by misinterpretations of the so-called lex talionis—‘life for life, eye for eye.’ 2000 B. W. Sinclair & J. Sinclair Life in Balance p. ii The Dixie Mafia had made good on its vow—a life for a life. b. life and soul. Cf. body n. 1b and heart and soul n.the life and soul of (a party, etc.): see sense 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [noun] souleOE lifeOE spiritusOE bloodOE ghostOE life and soulOE quickship?c1225 quicknessc1230 breatha1300 spirita1325 spark1382 naturec1385 sparkle1388 livelinessa1398 rational soula1398 spiracle1398 animal spirit?a1425 vital spiritc1450 soul of the world1525 candle1535 fire1576 three souls1587 vitality?1592 candlelight1596 substance1605 vivacity1611 animality1615 vividity1616 animals1628 life spring1649 archeus1651 vital1670 spirituosity1677 springs of life1681 microcosmetor1684 vital force1702 vital spark (also flame)1704 stamen1718 vis vitae1752 prana1785 Purusha1785 jiva1807 vital force1822 heartbeat1828 world-soul1828 world-spirit1828 life energy1838 life force1848 ghost soul1869 will to live1871 biogen1882 ki1893 mauri1897 élan vital1907 orgone1942 OE Homily: Sunnandæges Spell (Tiber. A.iii) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 218 And swa hwylc man, swa his weorc deþ an þane halgan sunnandeg, þanne weorþaþ þæs mannes lif and saule of þam heape mines folces. a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 71 We aȝen þenne ure boden to singe,..þet lif and saule beon iborȝen and baðe ilesed ut of sorȝen. 1426 in E. F. Jacob & H. C. Johnson Reg. Henry Chichele (1937) II. 340 (MED) I, William Chichele..dispose for my lyf and sowle by this my testament or last wille. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 21 Not to canonize mariage either as a tyrannesse or a goddesse over the enfranchiz'd life and soul of man. 1750 E. Kimber Life & Adventures Joe Thompson ii. 13 What would scarcely have kept Life and Soul together, in half that Number, sufficed us all. 1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 64 From their opposition comes Of good and evil like necessity; While death and body, life and soul, compugn. 1988 R. Dinnage One to One 144 I was very, very hurt, very devastated, because I'd really pledged my life and soul to her. 2006 C. Herman Prophets & Profits v. 190 [A management system] that depended on the full-time honorary chairman who gave his life and soul to it. c. life and limb (formerly also †life and member): esp. in the context of physical danger, as to venture (also risk) life and limb, etc. Cf. also Phrases 4. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] lifeOE life and limbc1275 life and memberc1275 being1521 trouble and strife1908 blood-being1915 the world > life > the body > part of body > [adverb] > every part or all over (from) head to foot (also feet)eOE ich a limbc1275 life and limbc1275 limb and headc1275 limb and landc1275 limb and lithc1275 from face to foot1567 limb and bone1599 limb and wind1697 limb and carcass1841 OE Cynewulf Crist II 776 Utan us to fæder freoþa wilnian.., se us lif forgeaf, leomu, lic ond gæst. lOE St. Margaret (Corpus Cambr.) (1994) 164 Sege me, hwanen is þin lif, Margareta, and hwanan beoð þine liman [L. unde est uita tua uel unde membra tua], and hwu and on hwilce wise is Crist mid þe.] c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 353 Ȝe sculen habben lif & leomen & beon mine leofe freond. c1300 St. Nicholas (Laud) 290 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 248 (MED) Ich ou ȝiue lijf and lime and ouwer chateles al-so. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1918 Of life & o lym my lege men I charge To prestli ȝow apparaill & pas þam agaynes, With all þe hathils & þe heris & þe hiȝe maistris. 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Iiij This letter following, wherein he..offered to gage his gloue with tooth and nayle, to hazarde life and limme if (so occasion serued) to proue the same. 1610 E. Gardiner Triall of Tabacco sig. I 3v Euen with the most valiant, that dare venture life and limbe, that cannot yet endure the letting of bloud. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 235 It is not enough to serve you in those offices, unless they venture life and member. 1698 R. Gould Satyr against Wooing 7 Mad to enjoy, he ventures Life and Limb. a1764 C. Churchill Duellist in Poems (1933) iii. 293 How often, whether wrong or right, Must he in jest or earnest fight, Risking for those both life and limb Who would not risk one groat for him! 1785 J. Hanway Chimney Sweepers xviii The present mode is disgraceful, as employing children to the danger of their limbs and lives. 1836 Lady Willoughby de Eresby in C. K. Sharpe's Corr. (1888) II. 495 Mrs. V..was pitched off..but mercifully escaped with life and limb. 1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel II. 137 All wild and rugged coasts she denounced sweepingly, as dangerous to life and limb. 1904 E. Rickert Reaper 246 These dangers to life and limb never entered the head of the practised moorsman. 1960 Observer 20 Mar. 22 The fact that the search was conducted without loss of life or limb is remarkable. 2008 Evening Standard (Nexis) 11 Feb. Any sudden surge of people, either in panic away from danger, or when attracted towards some ‘happening’, is a potential threat to life and limb. d. life after death: a state of existence after death (esp. as a matter of speculation or debate); resurrection, survival of the soul. ΚΠ 1549 T. Cooper Lanquet's Epitome of Crons. ii. sig. Tiii Thei taught, that there was neither angell spirite, nor life after death. 1692 W. Sherlock Pract. Disc. Future Judgem. (ed. 2) i. 102 Judgment is as certain as a Life after death , which I must take for granted in this Argument. 1708 W. Lowth Direct. Profitable Reading Holy Script. x. 193 Who..rose again to assure us of a Life after Death. 1867 Radical May 565 To the first Christians the question of life after death, was not the abstract, metaphysical question it has become to us. 1900 Harper's Mag. Aug. 432/1 In estimating the value of spirit phenomena as evidence of life after death. 2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 191/2 McDougall was interested in researching the possibility of life after death and studied telepathy and clairvoyance as well as the evidence for post-mortem survival. e. life means life (also life should mean life): used to express the principle or belief that a life sentence passed down by the judicial system should result in life imprisonment for the offender, with no possibility of release. Cf. sense 8b, life sentence n. 1. ΚΠ 1911 M. B. Booth Open Let. to Society iv. 106 But if life means life, why pardon them? If it does not, why sentence them to life? 1964 Times 22 Dec. 5/1 Life should mean life, or at least an indefinite term of imprisonment, unless and until a committee..decided after a certain number of years that the person concerned was a changed individual. 1975 Economist (Nexis) 25 Oct. 35 (headline) Bombing trial; Life means life? 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 Oct. i. 19/5 The rise in truth-in-sentencing laws, the oft-repeated maxim that ‘life means life’ and tougher parole boards have made the prospect of parole very limited in some states. f. there is (a) life after ——: it is possible to enjoy or make a fresh start in life after (a particular experience, event, situation, etc.); it is possible to manage without (something or someone considered to be essential). Frequently humorous. ΚΠ 1931 Washington Post 5 Nov. 20/5 Is there a life after Wall Street? 1942 N.Y. Times 8 Nov. v. 2/6 There is a life after playing with the Green Bay Monsters. 1968 N.Y. Times 25 June 34 (advt.) The nation's No. 1 authority on extra-marital hi-jinks is back to show there is life after marriage. 1980 Times 9 Oct. 6/6 ‘Is there life after Benn?’ ‘We are not going to have Benn, so we shall never know,’ Mrs Thatcher said. 2003 ‘S. Pax’ Weblog Diary 9 Mar. in Baghdad Blog 111 Surprise them with cool info from the web. It helps if Google is still blocked and no one has yet figured out that there is life after Google. 2008 Chatelaine (Electronic ed.) May Our girls are constant reminders that there is life after mental illness. g. life in the fast lane: see fast lane n. 2. P11. to —— the life out of. Cf. to death at death n. Phrases 1. a. To —— a person, resulting in death. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1565 J. Hall Hist. Expost. in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. sig. Bbb.iii He poured in a purgation..whiche within three or foure houres at the moste, purged the lyfe out of hir body. 1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 1 ii. ii. 22 Those hot flames, that burnt the Life out of the Noble Chrysostom. 1856 Putnam's Monthly Mag. May 540/1 What had England done, or what had the United States done, that could not be reconciled, until they had taken each other by the throat, and strangled the life out of one or the other. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. x. 145 A cannon-ball smites the life out of him, and he ended here. 1991 Sight & Sound Oct. 13/1 This is itself horribly overtrumped at the end when Isabella literally tears the life out of Kent with her teeth. b. To —— a person or thing to an extreme, violent, or unpleasant degree.Cf. also to bother the life out of at bother v. and int. Phrases 2a, to pester the life out of at pester v.1 4c, to plague the life out of at plague v. 2b. ΚΠ 1746 Let. 28 July in Leisure Hour (1880) 117 An old nasty grunting bishop..who plagues me out of my life, he is such a formal piece.] 1814 Lady Morgan O'Donnel II. iv. 112 Sure, if they'd let the hound alone, he would never ax to trouble them; but they worry the life out of him. 1825 Times 13 Sept. 3/4 Your Worship will shame the life out of me. 1891 T. De W. Talmage Night Scenes City Life xi. 161 His seven hundred wives almost pestered the life out of him! 1931 K. Boyle Plagued by Nightingale iv. 28 Washerwomen bending over the stream..and with wooden spankers beating the life out of dish-cloths. 1958 R. Galton & A. Simpson Hancock's Half-hour (1987) 124 Not in my ear, please. You frightened the life out of me. 2000 I. Pattison Stranger here Myself (2001) iv. 141 Back then teachers belted the life out of children and magistrates pined for corporal punishment. P12. In idiomatic collocation with verbs. a. ΚΠ OE Beowulf (2008) 2471 Þa he of life gewat. OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) I. 156 Se þegn wæs wunigende butan wifes neawiste, forðan þe his gebedda gefaren wæs of life. OE Ælfric Let. to Sigeweard (De Veteri et Novo Test.) (Laud) 31 Moises se mæra, mid þam þe he wæs on ylde hundtwentig wintra, ða gewat he of life. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8222 Herode king. Wass witenn ut off life. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8361 Alle þa..Nu sinndenn dæde. & farenn ut. Off life. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3884 Aaron ðo wente of liwe ðor. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)] swevec725 quelmeOE slayc893 quelleOE of-falleOE ofslayeOE aquellc950 ayeteeOE spillc950 beliveOE to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE fordoa1000 forfarea1000 asweveOE drepeOE forleseOE martyrOE to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE bringc1175 off-quellc1175 quenchc1175 forswelta1225 adeadc1225 to bring of daysc1225 to do to deathc1225 to draw (a person) to deathc1225 murder?c1225 aslayc1275 forferec1275 to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275 martyrc1300 strangle1303 destroya1325 misdoa1325 killc1330 tailc1330 to take the life of (also fro)c1330 enda1340 to kill to (into, unto) death1362 brittena1375 deadc1374 to ding to deathc1380 mortifya1382 perisha1387 to dight to death1393 colea1400 fella1400 kill out (away, down, up)a1400 to slay up or downa1400 swelta1400 voida1400 deliverc1400 starvec1425 jugylc1440 morta1450 to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480 to put offc1485 to-slaya1500 to make away with1502 to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503 rida1513 to put downa1525 to hang out of the way1528 dispatch?1529 strikea1535 occidea1538 to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540 to fling to deathc1540 extinct1548 to make out of the way1551 to fet offa1556 to cut offc1565 to make away?1566 occise1575 spoil1578 senda1586 to put away1588 exanimate1593 unmortalize1593 speed1594 unlive1594 execute1597 dislive1598 extinguish1598 to lay along1599 to make hence1605 conclude1606 kill off1607 disanimate1609 feeze1609 to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611 to kill dead1615 transporta1616 spatch1616 to take off1619 mactate1623 to make meat of1632 to turn up1642 inanimate1647 pop1649 enecate1657 cadaverate1658 expedite1678 to make dog's meat of1679 to make mincemeat of1709 sluice1749 finisha1753 royna1770 still1778 do1780 deaden1807 deathifyc1810 to lay out1829 cool1833 to use up1833 puckeroo1840 to rub out1840 cadaverize1841 to put under the sod1847 suicide1852 outkill1860 to fix1875 to put under1879 corpse1884 stiffen1888 tip1891 to do away with1899 to take out1900 stretch1902 red-light1906 huff1919 to knock rotten1919 skittle1919 liquidate1924 clip1927 to set over1931 creasea1935 ice1941 lose1942 to put to sleep1942 zap1942 hit1955 to take down1967 wax1968 trash1973 ace1975 OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 162) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 67 Þa earman Iudeiscan embe þæt smeadon, hu hi þæt soðe lif of life gedydon. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 197 And te londes men hire..lacheð, and doð of liue. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3806 .xiii. ðhusent it [sc. the plague] haueð slagen, And .iiii. score of liue dragen. c1400 (?a1300) King Alexander (Laud 622) 7596 Ȝee duden Porus of lyue. (c) to bring (out) of life (also life's day) (to kill: see bring v. 8c). b. (a) to come to life: to recover from or as from death; to regain consciousness. Also: to develop or show signs of life; to become animated. Also figurative. ΚΠ OE Phoenix 367 Hwæþre eft [fenix] cymeð aweaht wrætlice wundrum to life. c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Laud) (1901) 113 (MED) For yf þou come to liue [v.r. were alyue], With suerdes..We sholde alle deye. 1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. sig. I iv Wilhelmus thoughte he had be dede bycause he felyd no wynde come from him and he halpe hym that he came to lyfe. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 78 A man may prophecie, With a neere ayme of the maine chance of things, As yet not come to life. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. 35 I have observed, that the small, and scarce-sensible seed, which it [sc. the silkworm] casts, comes not to life and disclosure untill the mulbery..yeelds her leafe. 1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds i. ix. 113 We bled him till he came to life. 1728 P. Aubin Life & Adventures Young Count Albertus iii. 66 Poor Eudoxia swooned at the News. She truly loved the inconstant Count, and coming to Life, fell at his Feet. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 54 They [sc. flies and butterflies] came to life after a syncope of longer duration. 1857 C. M. Sedgwick Married or Single? iv. 53 She perceived Letty coming to life again under the tender ministrations of the Steinbergs. 1876 S. Warner Daisy in Field xiv. 173 That hedgehog of thoughts began to stir and unfold and come to life. 1910 D. Fairbridge That which hath Been xxiii. 275 On the stoep of his pastorie sat the minister,..watching Dorp Straat come to life after its mid-day sleep. 1923 D. A. Mackenzie Myths China & Japan ix. 116 The saint handed him a crane made of paper which, when mounted, came to life and carried Sentaro across the ocean. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top (1960) 61 You're most awkward with Anne and Johnny. But with Alice you really come to life. 2007 Chesapeake Bay June 23/2 Feel the seventies come to life as R&B hitmakers The Stylistics, The Delfonics, The Blue Notes, and The Intruders take the stage. (b) to bring (back) to life: to cause to recover from or as from death; to cause to regain consciousness. Also: to imbue with life; to animate. Also figurative and in extended use. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 106 Þa coman twegen englas and me of ðam deoflum genamon and me gebrohtan to life, þæt ic nu on God gelyfe, æfter minum deaðe, þone þe ic ær wiðsoc. c1330 Gregorius (Auch.) (1914) l. 265 (MED) To liue god him wald bring. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 137 (MED) Lete him bryng to lyfe the bulle [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. arere þe boole from deth to lyve] that he hathe sleyne. a1576 Lady Abergavenny Praiers in T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones (1582) ii. 169 Thou which didst die and rise againe, wilt raise and bring to life all those that are dead beleeuing in thy faith. 1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly sig. I2 v Semyramis no sooner heard of the death of hir husbande, but she fell into a pasme, and was hardly brought to life. 1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 8 The Pelican powres from her brest her Blood, To bring to life her yonglings backe againe. 1696 J. Banks Cyrus Great Ep. Ded. sig. A4 That chear'd the World, and brought to Life the Stage, Where the sad Muses..Ne'er till that Day did tune their Songs agen. 1723 P. Aubin Life Charlotta Du Pont xii. 113 The Physicians were called, and by their Aid she was brought to Life. 1781 J. Goodridge Phœnix 24 Paradise..had received the greatest heat, in order..for the vegetables to spring and bring to life the creatures of all sorts. 1833 B. Cornwall On Eng. Trag. in Ess. & Tales in Prose (1853) II. 118 The Restoration, perhaps, cherished and brought to life that bright phalanx of wits, Wycherley, and Congreve, and the rest. 1873 L. Ferguson Disc. 71 His body..was immediately after death brought to life again in a spiritualised and incorruptible form. 1886 Philadelphia Evening Tel. 20 Mar. The hose was cut..and engines killed so that it will take days to bring them to life again. 1904 L. F. Baum Marvelous Land of Oz 40 How could he ever have guessed that the man..would be brought to life by means of a magical powder contained in an old pepper-box? 1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. iii. 120 They [sc. bronzes] bring to life the whole character of the period in a way that no historical account could ever do. 1990 Rolling Stone 9 Aug. 37/3 Each volunteers to be put to death..and then brought back to life... They call themselves flatliners. 2005 DVD Rev. No. 73. 33 A gorgeous visual feat.., Zhang Yimou's film is like a painting brought to life. c. to lose (also give, lay down, etc.) one's life. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > lay down one's life to lose (also give, lay down, etc.) one's lifeOE layc1330 putc1384 OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) x. 11 God hyrde sylþ his lif [L. animam suam dat] for his sceapon. c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine 2500 Iesu..leafde lif on rode for hire & for us alle. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 12935 Anan swa he lai hire mide, hire lif heo losede sone. c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 702 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 49 Nero gert hym lose þe lyf. ?1570 T. Drant Two Serm. sig. I viv The people ought thus to doo for the prince and magistrate, to draw theyr weapon in his cause, and to lay downe their life at his foote. 1596 E. Topsell Reward of Relig. vi. 129 Knowing her to be a faithfull sister, for whose sake, if need were, he was bound to lay downe his life. a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. iv. §5 I lay down my life for my sheepe... Christ said this now, because his Passion was begun. 1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 452 [They] sold their lives very dearely. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 140 You have..sav'd my Life. 1743 W. Crawford Zion's Traveller (ed. 2) xxix. 62 That the Prince of Life should lay down his Life for the ransoming of my Soul from Hell and Death, O! Wonderful! 1796 E. Inchbald Nature & Art I. xix. 122 The young woman who lost her virtue in the village of Anfield, had better have lost her life. 1897 Washington Post 7 Mar. 14/3 (headline) An unsung heroine. Little California girl who gave her life for her brother. 1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana (1962) 155 What a very romantic story. And now of course he would give his life for you. 2008 Australian (Nexis) 7 Jan. 7 Benazir was willing to lay down her life for what she believed in: for the future of a democratic, moderate, progressive Pakistan. d. to save (one's, or another's) life: see save v. Phrases 1 (also hyperbolically at save v. Phrases 1b). e. to lead (also live) a double life (see double adj.1 5). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > bring into practice or performance animatea1586 to give life to1593 to give effect to1845 1593 R. Wilbraham Jrnl. (1902) 3 Lawes to which her maiestie must give lief. 1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. O3v Young men, and Mayds, and Girles & Boyes, Giue life, to one anothers Ioyes. 1622 Let. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 69 To give life and execution to all Penal Laws, now hanging over the heads of Catholicks. 1625 C. Burges New Discouery Personal Tithes 48 The Statute of 32. Hen. 8. was principally intended both to giue life to the former Statute. 1631 T. Adams in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 150 To give life and beginning to the publick Lecture. 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 139 The late Dutchess..whose Curiosity and Skill in Natural Knowledge gave Life to many Discoveries which, without her happy Influence, would have lain uncultivated. g. to take the life of (someone), to take one's (own) life: see take v. Phrases 3a. h. to live one's own life: to conduct oneself without reference to the opinions of others; to live according to one's plan or principles. Cf. live v.1 5. ΘΚΠ the world > time > spending time > spend time [verb (intransitive)] > spend one's life liveeOE to live one's own life1833 the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > lead one's life in specific way [verb (intransitive)] leadc900 liveeOE to live one's own life1833 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > be independent [verb (intransitive)] > be uninfluenced by others to think for oneself1735 to live one's own life1833 1833 H. Ellison Madmoments I. 56 If thou wouldst be thyself, wouldst be a man, Live thine own Life; live for thyself. 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xiii. 229 Thinking meantime my own thoughts, living my own life in my own still, shadow-world. 1873 L. M. Alcott Work vii. 148 She clung to her little room, for there she could live her own life undisturbed. 1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock iii. iii. 397 At home you cannot live your own life. 1935 N. L. McClung Clearing in West xxv. 205 Still Will had his own life to live and must make his own choice. 1952 J. L. Waten Alien Son 87 Auntie Fanny lived her own life, never commenting on her husband's whirlwind comings and goings. 2002 Time Out N.Y. 19 Sept. 108/1 A contortionist of selfhood, John continually squeezes himself into boxes others have created in a paradoxical effort to live his own life below the culture's radar. i. to make a life: to live contentedly, successfully, or satisfactorily, esp. in new or difficult circumstances; (also) to make life satisfactory, or to provide the necessities for living, for oneself or another. ΚΠ 1877 Catholic World May 258/2 Many of their young men are forced to make a life for themselves in foreign service or by emigration. 1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier in Cent. Mag. May 137/2 O Kate, I love you, I need you, and if you'll let me, I'll make a life for you! a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xx. 461 You lost belief in me and dropped me. I have begun to make a life for myself. Let me alone. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xvi. 302 We will live together and make a life together, won't we? 1977 F. McDonagh tr. T. Adorno in E. Bloch et al. Aesthetics & Politics 186 The camp follower who uses the Thirty Years' War to make a life for her children thereby becomes responsible for their ruin. 1988 B. Desai Memory of Elephants 233 Now I'm making a life with Jan. 1999 Independent 29 Oct. i. 1/2 Once they have reached the age of adulthood, I would hope they would get as early as possible a release in order to give them some chance of making a life. j. Australian and New Zealand colloquial. to go for one's life: to make a wholehearted effort; to set about something with vigour and enthusiasm. Usually in imperative, expressing support and encouragement. Cf. to go for it at go v. Phrasal verbs 2. ΚΠ 1920 H. F. Mollard Humour of Road 14 You'll have to go for your life now, Jim, if you want your firm's boots to keep walking. You have a keen competitor up against you. 1940 J. Pollard Out of West 16 I shoved the menu across to him. ‘Go for your life,’ I said, trying not to sound too patronising. 1971 F. Hardy Outcasts of Foolgarah 80 Caught me right in the bloody act with a woman who came to do the cleaning; chocker-block up her, I was, going for me life. 1988 D. McGill Dict. Kiwi Slang 51 Look, she's alone now, you wimp. Here's your chance. Go for your life. 2008 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 3 May 44 I called my father up and told him word for word what I was going to say,..and he said go for your life. k. slang (originally U.S. ) (usually derogatory). to get a life: to adopt a more worthwhile and meaningful lifestyle, esp. by making new acquaintances or developing new interests, or by abandoning pointless or solitary pursuits. Frequently in imperative (esp. as a rebuke): stop being so boring, conventional, old-fashioned, etc.; start living a fuller or more interesting existence. ΚΠ 1983 Washington Post 23 Jan. (Mag.) 8/1 Gross me out, I mean, Valley Girls was, like, ohmigod, it was last year, fer sure! I mean, get a life! Say what? 1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 42 Geez, Joe, you're a 27-year-old burger fryer at Big Tommies. Get a life! 1990 N.Y. Woman Nov. 32/2 You need to get a fucking life, Moo-kie, cuz the one you got, baby, is not working. 1994 Guardian 24 Nov. (OnLine section) 4/2 If I'm using e-mail because I can't handle the stress of being in close proximity to other people, then I'm sad and should probably get a life. 1997 J-17 June 50 (table) All anybody seems to be talking about today is school work. These people need to get a life. 2000 Independent 23 Nov. ii. 12/7 A local father of three chuckled at his sons' damning verdict on his dialect: ‘Oh that's old hat father mon. We're movin on. We're in the 21st century now. Get a life!’ P13. In of-phrase or genitive. a. change of life (see change n. Phrases 2). b. a matter of life and (also or) death: something on which the life or death of a person depends; (also in extended use) a matter of vital importance or extreme urgency. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > of great importance a matter of life and (also or) deatha1631 three-decker1835 day1882 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > insecurity > precariousness > precarious situation a matter of life and (also or) deatha1631 neck-question1655 touch and go1816 tightrope1858 razor-edge1861 shaky do1942 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > essential or central > upon which something depends > types of a matter of life and (also or) deatha1631 neck-word1650 a1631 S. Harsnett Serm. Ezek. in R. Steward Three Serm. (1656) 131 Who so dishapes or defaces that Image..it is Capitale a matter of Life and Death. 1661 in S. Annesley Morning-exercise at Cripplegate xxiii. 583 Make Religion your businesse;..bestir your selves in this as in a matter of life and death. 1738 J. Fraser Mem. ix. 318 'Tis a Matter of Life and Death; hence the Charge of Prophesying, committed to the Prophets, is called a Burden. c1800 R. B. Sheridan Let. (1966) II. 124 It is really a matter of almost Life and Death—you must borrow of Barford or any neighbour, for not a moment is to be lost. 1837 C. Dickens Let. ?20 Apr. (1965) I. 249 It is matter of life or death to us, to know whether you have got Ainsworth's MS yet. 1898 W. J. Locke Idols x. 134 The marriage could be concealed no longer. It was a matter of life or death. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 31/1 I need a car in a hurry. It's a matter of life or death. Will you let me take that one. 1950 K. Winsor Star Money iii. xxix. 249 I never have made any man a matter of life or death to me. 2004 B. Dylan Chronicles I. v. 271 It's a matter of life and death and our friendship ain't worth a bo diddley. Is that what you're trying to tell me? c. life's rich pageant: see pageant n. 3c. d. power of life and death (see power n.1 Phrases 11.) e. of one's life: used to indicate the most significant example or event of its kind in one's life and (more recently also in weakened use) an exceptionally enjoyable or notable example or event (as the time of one's life, etc.). See also the surprise of one's life at surprise n. 4b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > most important > events grandc1390 of one's life1862 1862 L. P. Harvey Let. 17 Apr. in L. P. Brockett & M. C. Vaughan Woman’s Work in Civil War (1867) ii. 260 Yesterday was the day of my life. Thank God for the impulse that brought me here. 1874 Once & for Ever 181 Perhaps such days are common to you. To me it was the day of my life. 1887 A. M. Sullivan Let. 13 Nov. in H. Keller Story of my Life (1903) iii. iii. 340 We took Helen to the circus, and had ‘the time of our lives’! 1905 M. Moore Let. 24 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 10 I am having the time of my life. 1936 Discovery Jan. 14/2 They got the shock of their lives. 1939 W. Saroyan (title) The time of your life. 1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter i. 25 The men sat with their heads bowed over arms clasped round their knees like long-distance runners recovering from the race of their lives. 1982 A. Maupin Further Tales of City 17 The woman he had once described as ‘that uptight airhead from Cleveland’ was easily the love of his life. 1993 A. R. Siddons Hill Towns (1994) xi. 311 She's going to get the shock of her life. He's definitely wind-broke, as Sam would say. 2004 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 14 Mar. 16/2 The droll tongue of a woman with the wit to realize that, while she may be dirty and tired and in constant danger, she is having the time of her life. f. one of life's ——s: denoting a person who is a —— by nature; a habitual, perpetual, or archetypal ——. ΚΠ 1901 Cosmopolitan May 17/1 To-day she is one of life's philosophers. 1924 C. W. Gilbert You takes your Choice 56 There are men born to feel that they are captains of their soul. And Mr. Davis is one. He is one of life's fair-haired boys. 1955 Times 19 Aug. 2/5 He is one of life's born losers. 1971 ‘A. Burgess’ MF v. 57 I could not say that my body's little caprices rendered me so sick as to be taxonomized as one of life's permanent invalids. 1987 A. Perry Cardington Crescent (1991) xi. 268 She was one of life's survivors—a venturer, not a victim. 2001 Guardian 16 July ii. 4/1 I don't fanny about. I'm not one of life's fanny abouters. I just get on and do it. P14. Followed by of-phrase. a. the life of Riley (see Riley n.). b. the life of the mind [compare post-classical Latin vita mentis (6th cent.)] : intellectual or aesthetic pursuits, scholarship; (also) meditation, the realm of the imagination. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] the life of the mind1831 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > learned world > pursuits of the life of the mind1831 1823 S. J. B. Hale Genius of Oblivion 146 Nor death can the union destroy, That's linked with the life of the mind.] 1831 Encycl. Americana V. 111 His [sc. Fichte's] idealism led him to represent the life of the mind as the only real life, and every thing else as a mere delusion. 1899 W. James Talks to Teachers xiv. 161 The flowing life of the mind is sorted into parcels suitable for presentation in the recitation-room. 1926 E. Hemingway Men without Women (1927) 216 Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas. 1950 P. Bottome Under Skin xxiii. 204 If we try to escape into the life of the mind we find you there before us. 1972 G. E. C. Wigg George Wigg i. 28 He was an inspired teacher..arousing in us a feeling for literature and poetry and the life of the mind. 2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Feb. c1 The life of the mind must be ballasted with the senses. c. colloquial. a life of its own: (with reference to an inanimate object, abstract quality, emotion, etc.) a vitality, force, or motion which seems to function independently of any human intervention; a separate existence or history. Frequently in to have (also take on) a life of its own; cf. to have a mind of one's own at mind n.1 17f. ΚΠ 1659 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Fifth Bk. Authour i. iii. 20 Each source or quality, brought its own Tincture along with it, as a peculiar Life of its own [Ger. als ein eigen Leben]. 1674 J. Owen Disc. Holy Spirit iv. viii. 478 Sin in our depraved Nature, having a constant, powerful inclination, and working Actually towards all evil; it is said Metaphorically to Live, or to have a Life of its own. 1820 J. Hogg Winter Evening Tales II. 212 Each hair had a life of its own! 1882 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 3 195 The Greek infinitive has a life of its own. 1944 ‘Palinurus’ Unquiet Grave ii. 43 When sexual emotion increases,..something starts growing which possesses a life of its own. 1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 145 Every Trend has a life of its own, and Egonomics is in its prime. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Feb. ii. 9/1 The so-called ‘German wheel’..is another instance of a prop that takes on a life of its own. < as lemmas |
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