单词 | if i ever get my hands on |
释义 | > as lemmasif I ever (also wait till I) get my hands on (someone) (ii) To seize (someone) for the purpose of punishing him or her; to catch (a person) with whom one is angry or annoyed. Now usually as a rhetorical threat, rather than implying actual physical violence, esp. in if I ever (also wait till I) get my hands on (someone). Cf. lay v.1 21c(c). ΚΠ 1671 W. Mitchell Sober Answere Angry Pamphlet 8 The Lord wanted not his witnesses..whom the Papists (when they could get their hands on them) cruelly butchered and murthered. 1827 Standard (London) 30 May 2/2 If I get my hands upon her, if the devil does not turn her inside out, I will. 1875 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 16 Apr. Dodger..was an old man then, and he is twenty years older now, but still young enough to punish that correspondent should he ever get his hands on him. 1930 C. Williams War on Heaven x. 127 But till I know who or what the man was, I can't get my hands on the murderer. 1989 Weekly World News 8 Aug. 35/1 If I ever get my hands on that man I'll kill him. 2006 J. Vreeland When all else Fails 236 Just wait until I get my hands on the SOB who broke the window in my camper. < as lemmas |
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