| 单词 | buy and sell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto buy and sell Phrases P1. to buy and sell. In figurative and extended use: to trade or deal with (a person, a person's life, something immaterial) as with merchandise; to traffic in. a. transitive. With a person or as person's life as object; esp. (in early use) to seal the fate of (a person); to treat (a person's life) as forfeit; (later chiefly) to betray for a bribe. Chiefly in passive, as to be bought and sold. ΚΠ c1330 Roland & Vernagu (Auch.) (1882) l. 838 Smite ich eft on siþe Þi liif is bouȝt & seld. c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 59 Quod desteine, ‘he is bouȝt & solde;’ Quod deeþ, ‘his eende make schal we.’ 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 35 Dickon thy master is bought and sould . View more context for this quotation 1633 J. Ford Loues Sacrifice iv. sig. I3v My Lord you are vndone... Lost; and I feare your life is bought and sold. 1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 644 We're bought and sold for English gold. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Ringlet 33 She that gave you's bought and sold. 1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 142 The teachers who had taken Clive's on-your-bike homilies at face value got angry when they discovered how they'd been bought and sold. b. transitive. To deal in (something abstract, as one's honour, justice, love, etc.) as a commodity, esp. in a way viewed as corrupt or corrupting. ΚΠ a1450 York Plays (1885) 420 (MED) Thus schall þe sothe be bought and solde. 1548 N. Lesse in tr. P. Melanchthon Iustif. Man by Faith Only Ep. Ded. f. iiiv The Papystes professynge the name of Christ do vtterly denye Christe in byenge and sellynge the saluation of man. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 192 The Cardinall Does buy and sell his Honour as he pleases. View more context for this quotation 1774 J. Hanway Virtue in Humble Life I. 81 Those christians, who have made their religion a kind of market for churchmen to buy and sell souls: who presume to take upon themselves to acquit or condemn them, as it turns to their own worldly advantage. 1828 ‘A. Eldon’ Continental Traveller's Oracle I. 279 Kings, ministers, and prelates, thus buy and sell honours, virtues, and sometimes—nations. 1872 M. Oliphant Mem. De Montalembert II. xii. 68 What should I do among all those low people, who buy and sell their consciences? 1936 R. Conner Time to Kill 187 They were..a match for no city woman in the matter of buying and selling virtue. 1980 Detroit Free Press 8 July 7 a/5 The good old days when special interests and consenting politicians could buy and sell influence in the privacy of their own smoke-filled rooms. 2013 J. Kenny Spark xxxii. 317 It was the whole rotten system where corporations could buy and sell justice. P2. to buy (something) over a person's head: to buy for a higher price than someone else, to outbid a person for; (later also) to purchase something without regard to the pre-existing claim, offer, interest, authority, etc., of the person affected, in a way regarded as underhand or improper.Cf. over a person's head at head n.1 Phrases 1k. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > make various types of bid revie1591 underbid1611 bida1616 overbid1616 to buy over a person's head1682 ticket1778 spring1851 tender1865 jolly1869 1578 T. Lupton All for Money sig. Aiijv Who will not preuent his neighbour with buying things ouer his head. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece ii. 195 The Bishops are always buying it over one anothers Heads. 1755 T. Cibber Epist. to D. Garrick 22 A mistaken Purchaser bought my Farm over my Head, when I had no Suspicion of such Proceeding. 1841 Bradshaw's Jrnl. 11 Dec. 83/2 What business had he with them, I wonder? He bought them over my head, too. 1901 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 406 He would buy an entire collection rather than risk the chance of a volume he desired being bought over his head at an auction. 1981 New Scientist 14 May 450/1 The house had been the headquarters of the Sussex Archaeological Society for many years when Dawson bought it over their heads and turned them out. 2021 Express Online (Nexis) 10 Feb. Will Gail be left homeless as David enacts his revenge for his mum buying the house over his head? ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily fleec825 runOE swervea1225 biwevec1275 skip1338 streekc1380 warpa1400 yerna1400 smoltc1400 stepc1460 to flee (one's) touch?1515 skirr1548 rubc1550 to make awaya1566 lope1575 scuddle1577 scoura1592 to take the start1600 to walk off1604 to break awaya1616 to make off1652 to fly off1667 scuttle1681 whew1684 scamper1687 whistle off1689 brush1699 to buy a brush1699 to take (its, etc.) wing1704 decamp1751 to take (a) French leave1751 morris1765 to rush off1794 to hop the twig1797 to run along1803 scoot1805 to take off1815 speela1818 to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 absquatulize1829 mosey1829 absquatulate1830 put1834 streak1834 vamoose1834 to put out1835 cut1836 stump it1841 scratch1843 scarper1846 to vamoose the ranch1847 hook1851 shoo1851 slide1859 to cut and run1861 get1861 skedaddle1862 bolt1864 cheese it1866 to do a bunkc1870 to wake snakes1872 bunk1877 nit1882 to pull one's freight1884 fooster1892 to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892 smoke1893 mooch1899 to fly the coop1901 skyhoot1901 shemozzle1902 to light a shuck1905 to beat it1906 pooter1907 to take a run-out powder1909 blow1912 to buzz off1914 to hop it1914 skate1915 beetle1919 scram1928 amscray1931 boogie1940 skidoo1949 bug1950 do a flit1952 to do a scarper1958 to hit, split or take the breeze1959 to do a runner1980 to be (also get, go) ghost1986 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Let's buy a Brush, let us scour off, and make what shift we can to secure our selves from being apprehended. 1718 Eng. Rogue Reviv'd 18 Mr. Fuller having made Hay there whilst the Sun shin'd, he bought a Brush, and went over into the Mint, that common Receptacle of all Rogues, that have a Mind to Cheat their Creditors. ?1795 Laugh when you Can 57 Mr. Beefhead..still kept fast hold of the halter for security that Ralph should not ‘buy a brush’, or in plainer words, jump out of the window and march off. 1837 Spirit of Times 12 Aug. 206/1 I wished her a good night, and bought a brush. P4. to buy it: to suffer some mishap or reverse; esp. to be wounded; to get killed, to die; to be damaged or destroyed. Cf. sense 2b, to buy the farm (also ranch, plot, etc.) at Phrases 9.There is apparently no evidence of continuity between later evidence and quot. 1826, which perhaps shows a contextual use of sense 2a or sense 2b, although this is recorded later (perhaps cf. quot. 1925 at sense 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > happen unfortunately [verb (intransitive)] > suffer misfortune or a mishap mishappenc1230 mishapc1385 mistidec1390 spill1390 misbetide?a1400 misfalla1400 mistime1402 misfortune?a1425 misbefallc1450 miscapea1535 mischancea1542 to come home by unhappinessc1555 mislucka1617 buy1825 pratfall1940 schlimazel1963 1826 W. N. Glascock Naval Sketch-bk. I. 27 Never mind, in closing with Crappo, [sc. the French] if we didn't buy it with his raking broadsides. 1920 W. Noble With Bristol Fighter Squadron v. 70 The wings and fuselage, with fifty-three bullet holes, caused us to realize on our return how near we had been to ‘buying it’. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 41 To buy, to be scored off or victimized. Of a man getting an answer to a question which made him ridiculous: ‘He bought it that time.’ 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 39 He bought it, he was shot down. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 16 He's bought it, he is dead—that is, he has paid with his life. 1944 J. E. Morpurgo in Penguin New Writing 22 11 I'm afraid we want you elsewhere... Jim Barton bought it, and you'll have to take on his troop. 1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 261 He'd lived in London before the war, but the whole street where he'd hung out had bought it in the blitz. 2018 J. Miles Anat. Miracle xix. 282 Hooper..bought it in an IED attack. P5. to buy low (and) sell high (and variants): to buy assets when prices are low and retain them until their price increases. Later also buy low (and) sell high (and variants): used to express the principle or belief that the greatest profit to be earned (typically from investments on the stock market) is by using this method or technique. Π 1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 3114 in Wks. (1931) II. 362 That fassone was na folly, To sell richt deir, & by gud chaip. 1698 Britania Nova Illustrata 16 (note) It is the Customary Trade of Merchants, to Buy Cheap, and Sell Dear; but it is the Truest Policy, and most for the Publick Good, that they should Buy Dear, and Sell so too. 1832 Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer 21 July The Farmers of Georgia: May they buy low sell high and never be taxed with a infernal tariff. 1864 W. H. Thomes Gold Hunters' Adventures lxxxi. 548 We had ready money enough on hand to take advantage of the markets, and buy low and sell dear. 1978 J. E. Mahoney Buy Low sell High 11 Those who claim that the way to make money in the stock market is to ‘buy low, sell high’ are being derided. Yet that is the only way to make money. 1997 J. Grote & J. McGeeney Clever as Serpents 71 In financial markets, the ultimate rule of thumb is ‘buy cheap and sell dear’. 2022 Financial Express (India) (Nexis) 12 May Retail US market investors have been buying the dip since..stock prices began to fall... This perhaps could be the right approach as buy low, sell high remains a robust principle to create wealth over a longer time frame. P6. to buy time: to delay an action, event, etc., in order to allow more time for preparation; to take a course of action which will allow more time to do something else. Π 1832 Observer 31 Dec. The contest now, therefore, is purely one of time and resources, that is, of money to buy time. 1876 Gen. Rep. Admin. Bombay Presidency 1874–75 p. xxxi A discontent which is chiefly caused by their first being terrified into signing bonds far in excess of what they owe in order to buy time. 1957 Times 11 May 6/3 The preservation of Jordan last month has bought time, and may have shifted the formal power of alignments of the Middle East. 2020 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Apr. 21 All he could offer was an oestrogen-suppressant drug that would slow the growth of the tumours and buy some time. P7. Horse Racing slang. to buy money: to bet (heavily) at short odds on a favourite. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet [verb (intransitive)] > type of betting run or throw a levant1714 levant1797 to pound it1819 field1860 to go for the gloves1861 to buy money1906 plunge1939 to bet like the Watsons1949 (to bet (etc.)) on the nose1951 1860 Bell's Life in London 29 July 4/4 The favourites, it will be seen, were successful in every race, although from the odds laid it amounted almost to ‘buying money’. 1906 A. C. Fox-Davies Dangerville Inheritance vii. 99 The public had left off buying money, and the wagering had become slack. 1928 Daily Express 12 July 12/2 Backers..had to buy money over On Avon and Rainbow Bridge. 2019 Racing Post (Nexis) 5 June 12 Anyone who thought they were buying money on..Locker Room Talk would have been worried down the back straight after the short-priced favourite jumped markedly to his right and was unable to get True Romance off the bridle. P8. Finance. to buy the (also on) dip and variants: to purchase a stock, commodity, asset, etc., after its price has dropped. Π 1888 Philadelphia Inquirer 31 Dec. 6/1 Operators who use a little caution in buying on dips will find it to their interest during the next sixty days. 1922 N.Y. Times 28 May 21/3 The local element was somewhat less bearish of late, and bought on the dips. 1983 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 21 Mar. Investors should use any price weakness to buy fixed-income investments, or as Richardson said: ‘Buy the dips’. 1987 Bond Buyer (Nexis) 30 Jan. 3 They wanted to buy the dip. And there's no dip. 2021 @AndrewL33582005 5 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 5 Nov. 2021) Understand the depth of the company you invest. Buy the dips and know when you invest it means patience and time against the manipulation of the market. P9. Originally U.S. Air Force slang. to buy the farm (also ranch, plot, etc.): (of the pilot of an aeroplane) to crash fatally; (hence more generally) to be killed; to die (cf. Phrases 4). [Perhaps with allusion to the notion that a farmer whose farm is damaged by a military plane crash would be compensated by the government. Compare earlier use referring to (non-fatal) motoring accidents in which a damaged vehicle, etc., is referred to as being bought as in quot. 1938.] ΚΠ 1938 Amer. Speech 13 308/2 Bought a car (or telephone pole, etc.), a driver is to blame for an accident.] 1954 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Mar. 20/1 [In a glossary of jet pilots' slang] Bought a plot, had a fatal crash. 1963 E. M. Miller Exile to Stars (1964) 29 The police dispatcher says a plane just bought the farm. 1968 K. H. Cooper Aerobics 125 If the clot is in a coronary artery, you've bought the farm. 1976 C. R. Anderson Grunts 154 They don't do nothing for a guy till after he buys the ranch. 1989 D. Koontz Midnight i. xi. 296 I was in surgery, having a bullet taken out of my chest, and I almost bought the farm. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xi. 322 For one hundred and fifty seconds he genuinely checked out, kicked the bucket, bought the farm. to buy and sell a. absol. and intransitive. (Often in phrase to buy and sell; more rarely to sell and buy.) ΚΠ c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 213 Þat is ure alre wune þe biggeð and silleð. 1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 287 Þat our merchantz mot go forto bie & selle. 1458 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 300 And he sel or by in maner above sayd. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 33 Iew. I wil buy with you, sell with you, talke with you..: but I will not eate with you. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlii. 6 And hee it was that sold to all the people of the land. View more context for this quotation a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1657 (1955) III. 187 They..were permitted to sell to the friends of their Enemies. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 467 The testator had no power to sell. < as lemmas |
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