| 单词 | tug of war |
| 释义 | > as lemmastug of war b. tug of war. (a) The decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle; a severe contest for supremacy. (b) An athletic contest between two teams who haul at the opposite ends of a rope, each trying to drag the other over a line marked between them. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of flitec1000 strifea1225 wara1300 pulla1400 lakec1420 contenta1450 stour?c1450 contentiona1500 pingle1543 agony1555 feudc1565 combat1567 skirmish1576 grapple1604 counter-scuffle1628 scuffle1641 agon1649 tug1660 tug of war1677 risse1684 struggle1692 palaver1707 hash1789 warsle1792 scrabble1794 set-to1794 go1823 bucklea1849 wrestle1850 tussle1857 head-to-head1884 scrum1905 battleground1931 shoot-out1953 mud-wrestle1986 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > tug-of-war Sun and Moon1572 tug of war1876 1677 N. Lee Rival Queens iv. 48 When Greeks joyn'd Greeks, then was the tug of War. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VIII li. 136 At last [the mob] takes to weapons..Then comes ‘the tug of war’. 1876 World V. No. 108. 13 The tug of war..was the most popular item in Saturday's entertainment. 1893 E. H. Barker Wanderings by S. Waters 263 He [the devil] therefore lost no time in entering upon a tug-of-war with the saintly interloper. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 7/1 Their tug-of-war team pulled over two teams of British Tommies. < as lemmas |
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