| 单词 | to wipe a person's eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wipe a person's eye d. to wipe a person's eye (slang or colloquial): (a) Sporting, etc. (see quot. 1823); hence, to get the better of, ‘score off’; (b) to ‘give a black eye to’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > win > defeat someone to wipe a person's nose1577 to wipe a person's eye1823 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > injure by striking > bruise > give black eye to wipe a person's eye1874 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words (at cited word) In shooting, if one miss the bird, and a companion, firing after, kill it, the lucky, or more skilful gunner, is said to wipe the eye of his disappointed friend. 1860 W. W. Reade Liberty Hall, Oxon. II. 207 If there is anything,..you shoot first, old boy, as it's your find: I'll stand by and wipe your eye. 1869 Athenæum 14 Aug. 214/1 The personal question between the Society and its agents, of what is due from the latter to the former when its eye is to be wiped in the fashion above told. 1874 R. H. Belcher Cramleigh Coll. I. 89 Hullo! Cheeky! it's Sunday, or else I'd wipe your eye for you. 1886 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey Shooting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) I. 128 If you do perchance wipe the eye..of another shooter..apologize. 1899 Spectator 18 Mar. 385 Never so well-pleased as when he is wiping the eye of the professional burglar. 1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club xiv. 168 ‘I'm glad somebody appreciates me. Anyhow,’ he added viciously, ‘I bet that's wiped old Pritchard's eye.’ 1929 F. M. Ford Let. 11 Sept. (1965) 187 He had only got me away from Duckworth in order to wipe Gerald's eye. 1949 N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. vi. 60 At teatime the village policeman reappeared.., having wiped the eye of all the grand detectives who had come from London in their shiny cars. He produced a perfect jumble-sale heap of objects which had been discarded by the burglars. 1956 ‘A. Gilbert’ And Death came Too xiv. 146 Eventually he agreed to take the case (his heel of Achilles being an inability to pass up a chance of wiping the official eye). < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。