英语词汇“with hook or crook”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. by hook or (also and) by crook, †with hook or crook.: by all or any means, fair or foul; by one device or another. Usually implying difficulty in attaining the thing sought, which may necessitate the use of special or extraordinary means.As to the origin of the phrase there is no evidence; although invention has been prolific of explanatory stories, most of them at variance with chronology. The Wycliffite quots. are of somewhat doubtful date, and may be later than that from Gower, which has hepe n. for ‘hook’.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] > by any means

by hook or (also and) by crookc1380

in any casea1398

by some manner of means1580

at any rate1601

per fas et nefas1602

somehow or another1664

somehow or other1664

at all rates1667

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 250 Þei schulle bie hem wiþ pore mennus goodis wiþ hook or wiþ crok.

c1383 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 331 Þei sillen sacramentis..and compellen men to bie alle þis wiþ hok or crok.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 223 What with hepe and what with croke They [false Witness and Perjury] make her maister ofte winne.]

a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. D.v^v Nor wyll suffre this boke By hoke ne by croke Prynted for to be.

1541 Schole House of Women sig. D^v So at length, by howche or by crowche, Lesse or more, euer they craue, Untyll the hande, be in thy pouche.

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Cvii^v By one meanes therfore or by other, other by howke or crooke they must nedes departe awaye.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 179 Some..care not how they come by it, per fas & nefas, hooke or crooke, so they haue it.

1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 116 Title enough for a great man that resolved to hold by hooke, what he had got by crooke.

a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) ii. 35 If you could put us in a way, by hook or by crook, to get her out of the convent.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiv. 186 If you can't gain it by hook, you must by crook.

1842 ‘G. Eliot’ in Life (1885) I. 112 Do come by hook or by crook.

单词	with hook or crook
释义	> as lemmas with hook or crook P1. by hook or (also and) by crook, †with hook or crook.: by all or any means, fair or foul; by one device or another. Usually implying difficulty in attaining the thing sought, which may necessitate the use of special or extraordinary means.As to the origin of the phrase there is no evidence; although invention has been prolific of explanatory stories, most of them at variance with chronology. The Wycliffite quots. are of somewhat doubtful date, and may be later than that from Gower, which has hepe n. for ‘hook’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] > by any means by hook or (also and) by crookc1380 in any casea1398 by some manner of means1580 at any rate1601 per fas et nefas1602 somehow or another1664 somehow or other1664 at all rates1667 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 250 Þei schulle bie hem wiþ pore mennus goodis wiþ hook or wiþ crok. c1383 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 331 Þei sillen sacramentis..and compellen men to bie alle þis wiþ hok or crok. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 223 What with hepe and what with croke They [false Witness and Perjury] make her maister ofte winne.] a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. D.v^v Nor wyll suffre this boke By hoke ne by croke Prynted for to be. 1541 Schole House of Women sig. D^v So at length, by howche or by crowche, Lesse or more, euer they craue, Untyll the hande, be in thy pouche. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Cvii^v By one meanes therfore or by other, other by howke or crooke they must nedes departe awaye. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 179 Some..care not how they come by it, per fas & nefas, hooke or crooke, so they haue it. 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 116 Title enough for a great man that resolved to hold by hooke, what he had got by crooke. a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) ii. 35 If you could put us in a way, by hook or by crook, to get her out of the convent. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiv. 186 If you can't gain it by hook, you must by crook. 1842 ‘G. Eliot’ in Life (1885) I. 112 Do come by hook or by crook. extracted from hookn.¹ < as lemmas
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