† brethev.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To go to ruin. Past participle abroðen, bropin: degenerate, dissipated, self-ruined.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [verb (intransitive)] > go to ruin
brethec1275
to go to the dickens1833
a1000 Battle of Maldon 242 Abreoðe his angin.
c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) viii. 32 Eala þu abroðene folc!]
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15181 Bruttes gunnen breoðen balu wes on uolken.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2896 Ȝe sculleð breoðen.
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 5196 Ne seh[s]te leofue broþer, hou breþiþ [c1205 breoðeð] þis Frence.
c1300 Sarmun in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 6 Al þat þou wan here wiþ pine a broþin eir sal wast it al.
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v.c1275- not to give a pulled hen
- not to give a rap
- not to give a rat's arse
- not to give a rat's ass
- not to give a rat's ding
- not to give a rye straw for
- not to give a shit
- not to give a shite
- not to give a sod
- not to give a stuff
- not to give a thought
- not to give a toss
- not to give a turd
- not to give a twopenny damn
- not to give a twopenny hang
- not to give a whoop
- not to give a xxxx
- not to give another thought
- not to give someone a thought
- not to give someone another thought
- not to give something a thought
- not to give something another thought
- not to go much for
- not to go much on
- not to halloo until one is out of the wood