单词 | to trip up a person's heels |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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