| 单词 | crop and root |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrop and root 5. figurative, esp. in crop and root, implying the completeness or thoroughness of anything: cf. ‘root and branch’. Now Scottish. ΚΠ a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 69 Fals y wes in crop ant rote. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 25 She that was sothfaste crop and moore Of al his lust or ioyes here-to-fore. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxiii. 53 Antecrist cam þenne and al þe crop of treuthe Turned tyte vp-so-doun. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 125 Hayll, Dauid sede! Of oure crede thou art crop. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. x. 116 Baith crop and ruyte and hed of sik myscheif. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 129 To..sweip out the bischopis of bothe nationis cropt and root. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 30 (Jam.) I tauld you crap and root, Fan I came here. < as lemmas |
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