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单词 to trip up a person's heels
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to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels
(b) to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels and variants: to trip up a person; to lay low or bring down a person; also figurative. Now rare.
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the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (intransitive)]
to shed blood?a1100
to let blood?c1225
to be (a person's) priesta1450
shortena1535
kill1535
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels1587
to make dice of (a person's) bones1591
to put out (also quench) a person's light(s)1599
account1848
to fix1875
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > knock down > specifically a person or animal
fellOE
to strike down1470
quell1535
to run down1587
to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels1587
to strike up the heels of1602
level1770
silence1785
grass1814
send1822
to send to grass1845
beef1926
deck1953
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 93/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II He strake him with his bullet full in the forehead..and withall turned vp his heeles.
1592 T. Lodge Euphues Shadow sig. I4v Fortune who after she hath tripped vp the heele, houldeth vp by the hand.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 208 It is yong Orlando, that tript vp the Wrastlers heeles, and your heart, both in an instant. View more context for this quotation
1647 J. Taylor Kings Wellcome 3 Thy Constancie hath trip'd up Fortunes heele.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. vi. 17 Our men with one reasonable Cup of Spanish Sacke presently tumbled up their heeles, and left them like swine.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 174 It shall go hard but they will throw up his heels . View more context for this quotation
1707 J. Addison Rosamond ii. 26 Death has tripp'd up my Heels.
1758 D. Garrick Gamesters ii. 19 When 'tis done, I would chuse To tell her: it may kick up her heels another way.
1786 F. Burney Diary 13 Aug. (1842) III. 105 I have come on prodigiously..in the power and skill of walking backwards, without tripping up my own heels.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 321 Chip, to trip; as, ‘to chip up the heels’; or to ‘chip a fall’; as in wrestling.
1809 Hansard Commons 15 June 1037 They may rejoice they have outwitted the hon. gent. who introduced the measure, and have tripped up his heels.
1887 S. Baring-Gould Gaverocks III. 58 I wish it were in my power to kick up his heels.
1930 Forest & Stream Mar. 204/3 I know that cold serpent's tricks, and was determined that he should not trip up my heels.
1976 Newsweek (Nexis) 31 May (Arts section) 52 The army of underdogs that tripped up the heels of authority everywhere.
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