| 单词 | to tread one's shoes straight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto tread one's shoes straight b. to tread one's shoe awry (the shoe, one's foot, amiss, etc.), to fall from chastity. See also awry adv. 2c ? Obsolete. So to tread one's shoes straight, to conduct oneself circumspectly, to walk warily (dialect). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > fall from chastity (of woman) [verb (intransitive)] to tread (her) shoe awry (rarely amiss)c1422 to go wrong?1507 falla1616 to tread one's shoe awry (the shoe, one's foot, amiss, etc.)1642 to take a stone (up) in the ear1691 to sprain one's ankle1785 c1422 T. Hoccleve Min. Poems xxiv. 66 No womman..But swich oon as hath trode hir shoo amis. a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) clxxxi. 2 Farewell all my wellfare, My shue is trode awry. 1599 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. King Edward IV sig. R4v King Edwards children not legitimate..Their mother hapt to tread the shoe awry. c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2542 Due pennance thou deservst to doe For tredding thus awry thy slippery shoe. 1642 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. 110 If she chance to tread her foot a little awry. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Staff. 41 He would not stick to tell where he trod his holy Sandals awry. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh I. 112 They mun tread their shoes very straight or there'll be a row with our Squire. < as lemmas |
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