| 单词 | by head and shoulders |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby (the) head and shoulders (i) by (the) head and shoulders: (with reference to dragging, thrusting, etc.) violently, roughly, esp. in figurative contexts with reference to something being brought irrelevantly into a speech or text. Sometimes also without by. Cf. by (the) head and ears at Phrases 3e(c). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [phrase] > by violence or force strong handOE by forcec1320 through, with, of forcec1320 by or with strifec1330 by way of feat1362 by (also with, by) fine forcea1375 by mighta1425 by force and armsa1481 by way of deed1535 by (the) head and shoulders1571 by (the) head and ears1590 sting and ling1816 the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [phrase] > irrelevant > irrelevantly introduced by (the) head and shoulders1571 1571 J. Bridges Serm. Paules Crosse 76 Workes are thus by S. Paul in the matter of Iustification thrust clean out of the dores by the heade and shoulders. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 94/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Diuers thoughte to haue bin housed, and so to lurke in Lorelles denne, who were thrust out by the head and shoulders. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 23 Any, whom necessity..thrusts out by head and shoulders. 1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 20 The Lecturer brought in this whole affair by the head and shoulders into his Sermon. 1751 J. Wesley Let. Dec. (1931) III. 300 My supposed inconsistency with regard to the Moravians, which you..drag in (as they say) by head and shoulders. 1775 M. Lewis Let. 4 Sept. in Corr. & Jrnls. S. B. Webb (1893) I. 102 New York was, according to custom, lugged in Head & shoulders by Col. Gadsden. 1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 412/2 Nine-tenths of the songs which we hear upon the stage are so lugged in by the head and shoulders, that we cannot be surprised if they suffer from the operation. 1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember II. iii. 44 I must drag the mention of the fact in head and shoulders here, or else I shall forget it. 1910 G. Saintsbury in Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. V. 507 I have endeavoured, without lugging in discussion of it by head and shoulders, to justify its adoption where it seemed proper to do so. 1919 E. C. Clark Hist. Rom. Private Law III. 497 [This] involves..the postponement of Livy's introduction of the manipular system, which he rather drags in by the head and shoulders, about 337 b.c. < as lemmas |
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