单词 | up in arms |
释义 | > as lemmasup in arms d. up in arms. extracted from armsn. (a) Willing or ready to fight; actively engaged in an armed struggle, protest, or rebellion. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [adverb] > levied or mobilized up in arms1576 1576 A. Golding tr. Lyfe Shatilion sig. Eviiv The Protestantes that were vp in armes in other places [L. qui alibi in armis erant]. c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 47 On a soden yow shall have all quarters up in armes. 1652 French Occurr. No. 12. 76 The Highlanders stand it out stifly; 2000 are up in Armes. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 278 All created beings are up in arms to reduce the rebels. 1725 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. I. i. 45 News was brought the General that the Brigantes were up in arms. 1799 J. Reeves Thoughts Eng. Govt. III. 66 The unscientific Sectarists, your friends the Tellurians, were presently up in arms. 1812 G. Crabbe Tales v. 87 Be not a Quixote, ever up in arms To give the guilty and the great alarms. 1879 J. D. Long tr. Virgil Æneid x. 321 Ascanius, cooped in by wall and ditch, The Latins up in arms, fights hand to hand. 1922 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 283/2 My host said that Austria would be up in arms, and that Germany would support her against Russia. 1975 Times 17 May 6/1 ‘Hostile’ Mizos have been up in arms for more than a decade. 2013 Interdisciplinary Jrnl. Contemp. Res. in Bus. 5 787 Pakistan's Pushtoons are up in arms against the Centre. (b) figurative. In a violent state; in commotion or turmoil; (also in extended use) angered or indignant, esp. in the defence of a particular cause. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > opposing or resisting up in armsa1629 a1629 R. Hegge Legend St. Cuthbert (1663) 39 Both the Sea and the winds were up in armes. 1681 N. Lee Lucius Junius Brutus 48 My thoughts were up in arms All in a roar, like Seamen in a Storm. 1710 J. Swift Tale of Tub (ed. 5) Apol. sig. A7 All the Men of Wit..were immediately up in Arms. 1782 W. Cowper Expostulation in Poems 138 A world is up in arms, and thou..Endur'st the brunt. 1868 J. Bruce in K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. Mediterranean Pref. p. xxxii As soon as the facts came to the knowledge of the Admiralty..Buckingham's Secretary was up in arms. 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny vi. 108 The public-house keepers and brewers were up in arms to raise as much opposition as possible. 1920 Green Bk. Mag. June 102/1 All that was feminine in her was up in arms. 2010 N.Y. Times 4 Apr. nj7/5 His neighbors are up in arms, upset at the scale of the building he has proposed. < as lemmas |
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