| 单词 | exchange blows |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexchange blows 3. ‘An act of hostility’ (Johnson). Usually in plural blows = ‘combat, fighting, war’, in the phrases to be at blows, come (or go), fall, get to blows, exchange blows. ΘΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] fightc900 deal993 wraxlec1000 skirm?c1225 makec1275 mellc1300 to fight togethera1400 meddlec1400 match1440 wring1470 cobc1540 toilc1540 strike1579 beat1586 scuffle1590 exchange blows1594 to bang it out or aboutc1600 buffeta1616 tussle1638 dimicate1657 to try a friskin1675 to battle it1821 muss1851 scrap1874 to mix it1905 dogfight1929 yike1940 to go upside (someone's) head1970 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by some hostile or injurious agency onfalleOE oncomea1225 sailing13.. visitinga1382 siegec1385 assault1508 visitation1535 assaulting1548 onset1566 assailment1592 blow1594 insult1603 attempt1662 attack1665 offencea1677 seizure1881 society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > come to blows to come to strokes1297 to fall in hand (also hands)1448 to fall to1577 come (or go), fall, get to blows1594 to go or fall to cuffsa1616 to fall, get, go to loggerheads1671 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 ii. iii. 84 Come leaue your drinking, and fall to blowes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vi. 44 When Caesar and your Brother were at blowes . View more context for this quotation a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iv. iii. 226 Wee..wished for nothing else then to be at blowes with our enemies. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. v. 19 Their controversie must either come to blowes, or be undecided. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 556 There was reason to fear that the two parties would come to blows. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 322 Too young to have themselves exchanged blows with the cuirassiers of the Parliament. 1891 Leeds Mercury 27 Apr. 4/4 The hostile parties got to blows and stone-throwing. < as lemmas |
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