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单词 to whip one's weight in wildcats
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to whip one's weight in wildcats
12. To overcome, vanquish, defeat; to surpass, outdo: = beat v.1 10. Also (U.S. colloquial) to whip one's weight in wildcats and variants: (to be able) to fight vigorously; to be fit and strong. Chiefly U.S.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass or beat
whip1571
overmaster1627
to give (one) fifteen and a bisque1664
to beat (all) to nothing1768
beatc1800
bang1808
to beat (also knock) all to sticks1820
floga1841
to beat (a person, a thing) into fits1841
to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849
to knock (the) spots off1850
lick1890
biff1895
to give a stone and a beating to1906
to knock into a cocked hat1965
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat
shendc893
overwinOE
overheaveOE
mate?c1225
to say checkmatea1346
vanquishc1366
stightlea1375
outrayc1390
to put undera1393
forbeat1393
to shave (a person's) beardc1412
to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425
adawc1440
supprisec1440
to knock downc1450
to put to the worsta1475
waurc1475
convanquish1483
to put out1485
trima1529
convince1548
foil1548
whip1571
evict1596
superate1598
reduce1605
convict1607
defail1608
cast1610
banga1616
evince1620
worst1646
conquer1655
cuffa1657
trounce1657
to ride down1670
outdo1677
routa1704
lurcha1716
fling1790
bowl1793
lick1800
beat1801
mill1810
to row (someone) up Salt River1828
defeat1830
sack1830
skunk1832
whop1836
pip1838
throw1850
to clean out1858
take1864
wallop1865
to sock it to1877
whack1877
to clean up1888
to beat out1893
to see off1919
to lower the boom on1920
tonk1926
clobber1944
ace1950
to run into the ground1955
1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxvi. 100 Ȝe neid na ma bot Gedionis thre hunder To quhip your fais.
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. i. 72 Raymund..whipped the rebells, quieted Leynster.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 17 You will whip the Spaniards in point of generousnesse.
1828 Spirit of Seventy-Six (Frankfort, Kentucky) 17 Jan. 3/5 I can ride upon a streak of lightning, whip my weight in wild cats.
1833 Sketches & Eccentricities D. Crockett (1834) xiii. 164 I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods,..; can whip my weight in wild cats.
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xxvi The British can whip the whole airth, and we can whip the British.
1852 H. C. Watson Nights in Block-house 20 Not as long as I can whip my weight in catamounts or bar, I'll never give in.
1861 C. J. Lever One of Them xl We can whip all cre-ātion.
1870 G. H. Lewes Let. 17 May in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1956) V. 96 We hope to see you both come back ready to ‘whip your weight in polecats’. You will not find us in that vigorous condition!
1878 H. Alger Joe's Luck in Street & Smith's N.Y. Weekly 8 Apr. 2/5 I kin whip my weight in wild cats, am a match for a dozen Indians to onst, and kin tackle a lion without flinching.
1901 R. S. W. Bell Tales of Greyhouse 18 If Eccles uses his weight cleverly, Wardour will be whipped to a cert.
1906 Dial. Notes 3 164 Whup,..to vanquish, to punish, to tire. ‘That whups me.’
1968 Punch 25 Sept. 451/2 The Matt Dillon urge to ‘whup’ the Commies.
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