| 单词 | to wear to the stumps |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(to wear) to the stumps b. Phrase, (to wear) to the stumps. Chiefly figurative. Very common in 16–18th centuries; now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > cause to waste away > wear away or down afrayc1330 wear1382 contrive?a1475 to wear to rags or tattersa1529 wear1538 (to wear) to the stumps1563 work1853 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1313/2 Though our soule priestes sing til they be bleare eyed, say tyl they haue worne theyr tongues to ye stumpes, neither their singings nor their sayings shall bryng vs out of hel. 1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 37 God wil..throw into the fyre, those rods of his wrath, when he hath worne them to the stumps. 1615 J. Day Festivals 287 I haue endeavoured to carke and care for them all, haue spent my whole life, and worne my selfe to the very stumps. 1660 J. Gauden Κακουργοι 63 The first reduceth a Nation to its stumps, and makes it a cripple a long time. 1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 10 When they had almost quite worn out their patience to the stumps. c1680 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) II. 525 Thou may'st pray 'till thy tongue be worn to the stumps. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. 148 Erasmus plainly shews, that Archbishop Lee had driven him to his Stumps. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xvii. 116 This Man of pleasure, when after a wretched Scene of vanity and woe his animal nature is worn to the Stumps. to wear to the stumps c. with pred. complement, as to wear threadbare, smooth, blunt; to wear to rags or tatters, to wear to the stumps. (Also in figurative context.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > cause to waste away > wear away or down afrayc1330 wear1382 contrive?a1475 to wear to rags or tattersa1529 wear1538 (to wear) to the stumps1563 work1853 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Aiiii Welth and wyt I say be so threde bare worne That all is without measure. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1313/2 Though our soule priestes sing til they be bleare eyed, say tyl they haue worne theyr tongues to ye stumpes, neither their singings nor their sayings shall bryng vs out of hel. 1575 G. Gascoigne Complaint Greene Knight in Posies 180 She did but weare Cosmanes cloutes, which she in spite had torne: And yet betwene them both they waare the threeds so neere [etc.]. 1639 J. Taylor Part Summers Trav. 48 My Pen is worn blunt. 1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 232 All his too frequent kisses have worn it to tatters. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 323 There was no water dropping from the roof of this cave; but in a thousand places..it crept through the sides, and formed streams that ran softly over the ground, and weared it smooth. 1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 7 He'll stick to his honour too, till his cassock is wore to a rag. 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. v. 27 His forehead, by his casque worn bare. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. vii. 152 She would wear a gown to rags, because he had once liked it. < as lemmas |
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