单词 | to twit in the teeth |
释义 | > as lemmasto twit (a person) in the teeth † to twit (a person) in the teeth: to censure, reproach, or upbraid (a person); to tease, to taunt. Cf. tooth n. Phrases 1d. Obsolete.Frequently with prepositional phrase expressing the criticized action, fault, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [verb (transitive)] > reproach with upbraida1250 undernimc1320 to lay to one's credit, reproachc1515 to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526 to twit (a person) in the teeth1530 to hit (one) in the teeth with1535 to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551 to fling (anything) in one's teeth1587 to throw (thrust, fling, (etc.)) (something) in a person's face1597 to tit (a person) in the teeth1622 nose1625 exprobrate1630 puta1663 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 646/1 I onbrayde, I twite or cast in the tethe, Je reprouche. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 500 In his youth he was faine to hyer an other mans house,..at a small rent, as afterwards he was twitted in the teeth withall. 1614 J. Day Dyall Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3v Caius of Cambridge did twit vs in the teeth with some of our Founders here in Oxford that had beene themselues Cambridge Men. 1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 185 They twitted him in the teeth with Heresie. 1729 J. Gay Let. 9 Nov. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) II. 103 You have often twitted me in the teeth for hankering after the court. 1780 Miss Palmer Female Stability IV. 69 He..never failed to twit me in the teeth of my foolish promises. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. iv. i. 79 They twit me in the teeth, because I cannot say who my father and mother were. < as lemmas |
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