| 单词 | hard lines |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard lines 1. In plural, as hard lines. With plural and (later usually) singular agreement. extracted from hard linen.int.adj.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [noun] > act or instance of reddoura1375 raddourc1440 severitya1538 hard lines1695 1695 Πατρὸς Κάτοπτρα καὶ Παιδὸς Γονυκλισία 13 These are hard lines, when Parents will not suffer their Children to speak one word to pacifie their Wrath. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. 313 He..was required to castrate himself, by order of K. James the First..and the castration it self was to be subject to a future Royal Inspection: These were hard Lines. 1758 ‘Mrs. Richwould’ South Sea Fortune I. xii. 180 All that remained of my subscription would fall short by five thousand pounds... This you'll say, added my father, was very hard lines. 1841 Fraser's Mag. June 641/2 ‘Listen!’ cried our jailor: ‘Here you will be kept without food or drink..and when you have given all up..then you may go about your business.’ This is what I call ‘precious hard lines.’ 1875 Chem. News 3 Dec. 270/1 Are they not ‘hard lines’ which condemn a man unfit for his post just because in a fit of bewilderment he made a statement which was absurd? 1928 Manch. Guardian 27 Nov. 9 It seems very hard lines that one should have to do penance for the sins of other people... He has been eating the food of a coolie, and sleeping upon the bare floor instead of in his luxurious Occidental bed, as a rite of self-abasement. b. Bad luck, misfortune; difficult or straitened circumstances, esp. expressing (sometimes ironic) commiseration. Also as int. Cf. hard luck n. [Probably nautical in origin; now often associated with line n.2 4c: compare e.g. quot. 1865 at line n.2 4c.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck un-i-limpOE unlimpc1175 mishap?c1225 unhap?c1225 mishappeningc1230 ames-ace?a1300 misadventure?a1300 ill hailc1300 misauntera1325 untiminga1325 miscasec1325 mischancec1325 misfall1340 misfarea1387 casec1390 infortunea1393 mishapping?a1400 unchancea1400 disadventurea1413 mischieving1432 infortuny?a1439 encumbermentc1440 misfortune1441 evil hail?c1450 malfortunea1470 unhappiness1470 maleurtee?1473 malheur?1473 evil health1477 unfortune1483 wanfortunea1500 disfortune1509 wanhap1513 ill, evil ch(i)eving?1518 mislucka1530 ill luck1548 unfortunacy?c1550 evilfare1556 unluck1556 hard luck1567 bad luck1575 miscasualty1588 disgrace1590 wanchance1599 disventure1612 misaccident1620 miscarriagec1625 hard lines1722 mishanter1754 malefit1755 miscanter1781 hard cheese1854 hard cheddar1893 schlimazel1911 tough luck1912 snake eyes1918 catch-arse1970 1722 O. Dykes Royal Marriage vii. 85 It [sc. Poverty] sometimes afflicts like a judicial Fatality..These are very hard Lines in Truth! 1788 Times 5 Mar. i. 3 If a man be a very mechanical man indeed, he will often complain, ‘these are hard lines!’ 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. iv. 110 'Gad, Sir, that was hard lines! to have all the pretty women one had waltzed with..holding round one's knees, and screaming to the doctor to save them. 1892 Daily Times-Enterprise (Thomasville, Georgia) 12 Feb. 1/4 The Mortimer company are in hard lines. They have been forced to cut their season. 1903 A. C. Smedley April Princess ix. 160 ‘Three years again, I bet on the farthest, rottenest station that Admiralty knows, God bless 'em!’ said the Little Lieutenant... ‘Oh, hard lines!’ said the Princess. 1985 J. Kelman Chancer (1987) 90 Tammas grinned. He remained standing, his hands on the edge of the table. I saw your result in the paper—hard lines. 2008 C. Matthews Welcome to Real World xxvii. 153 Hope this is an adequate outfit for a Royal Variety Performance. If it isn't, it's hard lines, because it's the only one I've got. < as lemmas |
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