| 单词 | hard done by |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard done by P4. hard done by: unfairly or harshly treated. Cf. to do by —— 1 at do v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1817 Norfolk Election Budget No. 6. 46 Small farmers he thought were very hard done by, By duty on horses that toil'd on the land. 1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum (1900) xx. 197 Mebbe I've ben hard done by all my hull life. 1959 P. Bull I know Face i. 24 We..all..felt hard done-by. 2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians (2003) ix. 106 Elliotson, a combative man with a tendency to consider himself hard done by, was eventually hounded out by the medical ‘establishment’. < as lemmas |
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