单词 | fit to be tied |
释义 | > as lemmasfit to be tied b. Inclined, disposed. Now chiefly colloquial and dialect in stronger sense: Angry or troubled enough to (do something desperate or violent); exhausted enough, ‘ready’ to (sink to the ground, etc.). Also, fit to be tied (slang), extremely angry, hopping mad. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective] > angry enough to do something ready1535 fit1574 the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [adjective] > inclined set13.. tendenta1340 disposedc1380 enclinant1400 inclining?c1400 inclinedc1405 prone1408 hieldingc1480 talenteda1500 inclinablea1513 prone1528 propense1528 minded1529 propensed1530 ready1533 proclivec1540 fit1574 tending to1578 forward1581 minded1588 propensive1599 intense1620 propendenta1646 propended1693 calculated1723 oriented1925 prone1926 turned1931 orientated1964 the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry grim971 aweddeOE woodlyc1000 anburstc1275 woodc1275 aburstc1300 eagerc1325 brotheful1330 brothely1330 furiousc1374 wroth as (the) wind1377 throc1380 fella1382 wrothlya1400 grindelc1400 raginga1425 furibund1490 bremit1535 outraging1567 fulminant?1578 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 snuff1582 woodful1582 maddeda1586 rageful1585 furibundal1593 gary1609 fierce1611 wild1653 infuriate1667 hopping mad1675 maddened1735 sulphureous1751 savage1789 infuriated1796 bouncing mad1834 frenzy1859 furyinga1861 ropeable1870 furied1878 fulminous1886 livid1888 fit to be tied1894 hopping1894 fighting mad1896 tamping mad1946 up the wall1951 ravers1967 1574 J. Baret Aluearie F 575 Fitte..inclined, disposed. Accomodatus. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xv. 273 When men are heauie laden with griefe and sorowe, then are they fittest to call for, and to receiue refreshing. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick ii. ii. 255 I am fit to hang my self because I can't find it out. 1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 335 And Calvin's folk are fit to fell him. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 24 To look at things around he's fit to freeze. 1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain 11 He..keeps you standing till you are fit to sink. 1856 Knickerbocker Oct. 433 Then she laughs fit to kill. 1866 ‘Old Stager’ Stage Reminisc. vii. 92 The smoke and fumes..came up through the chinks of the stage, fit to choke a dozen Macbeths. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) ‘They war fit to feyt about her.’ 1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte II. xxviii. 177 The old devil was fit to be tied. 1916 E. F. Benson David Blaize v. 101 Cruikshank's awfully pi: fit to burst. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 719 I was fit to be tied. 1938 R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 30 The roundabout with its hurdy-gurdy shrieking fit to raise the dead. 1953 ‘E. Ferrars’ Murder in Time xxi. 189 Mad at you. Fit to be tied. 1956 C. D. Simak Strangers in Universe (1958) 193 It threw the place into a tizzy... The boss is fit to be tied. When he gets hold of you… < as lemmas |
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