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单词 armed to the teeth
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armed to the teeth
armed to the teeth and variants [compare French armé jusqu'aux dents (1690 or earlier)] : heavily armed; well-equipped with weapons.
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c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2707 Þey wern y-armed in-to þe teþ & araid wel for þe fiȝt.
c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) l. 460 All y-armed yn-to þe teþ.]
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. xii. xii. 221 Two lusty lacqueys..mounted on mules, and armed to the teeth [1735 anon. tr. armed up to the very Teeth; Fr. armés jusqu'aux dents], brought up the rear.
1826 Museum Foreign Lit. & Sci. Jan. 641 The English chap-books term him a pirate and cut-throat, bearded and armed to the teeth.
1854 J. R. Morell Russia & Eng. ii. 18 The besiegers..are far from anticipating such a terrible missile—a man armed to his teeth.
1877 H. James Let. 29 Dec. (1975) II. 153 There is no chance in the armed-to-the-teeth Europe of our time.
1919 H. W. Concannon Women of 'Ninety-eight 317 Though armed to the teeth, the grey-friezed horsemen were on no business of blood to-day.
1982 R. Ludlum Parsifal Mosaic (1983) xxviii. 480 I did speak with our armed-to-the-teeth cook, and I'm sure I flirted.
2007 C. MacFarlane Real Gorbals Story (2009) xix. 156 Hundreds of gang members went there armed to the teeth.
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armed to the teeth
a. So as to be completely equipped; very fully or completely: in armed to the teeth; so entrenched up to their teeth.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective]
weaponedc1000
armedc1300
well-armedc1300
well-weaponeda1325
armed to the teethc1380
well-steeledc1390
warlikec1420
anarm1426
boden1429
well-harnesseda1450
geared1488
well-geared1488
well-boden1496
warly1508
enarmedc1540
burled1616
undisarmed1649
of (good) force1697
tooled up1959
weaponized1973
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2707 Þey wern y-armed in-to þe teþ & araid wel for þe fiȝt.
14.. Lybeaus Disc. 460 All yarmed to the teth.
1708 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 328 The French..are intrench't up to their teeth.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. xi. 43 Everybody in Spain travels armed to the teeth.
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