单词 | to whip one's weight in wildcats |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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