| 单词 | i'll see you damned first |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI'll see you damned (also dead, in hell, etc.) first P12. colloquial. I'll see you damned (also dead, in hell, etc.) first and variants: expressing emphatic and hostile refusal in response to or with reference to a proposition, request, etc.See also I'll see (you, etc.) hanged first at hang v. 3d, I'll see you further (first) at further adv. 4b. ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 150 Pray thee go downe. Pist. Ile see her damnd first, to Plutoes damnd lake by this hand to th'infernal deep, with erebus & tortures vile also. View more context for this quotation 1611 G. Chapman May-day iii. 43 I would see her pithole [d] , afore I would deale with her. 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 2nd Pt. i. sig. B2v Ile see you damn'd as deep as the black father of your generation the devill first. 1735 J. Swift Clever Tom Clinch in Wks. II. 299 I'll see you all damn'd before I will whittle. 1797 Anti-Jacobin 27 Nov. 15/2 I give thee Sixpence! I will see thee damn'd first. 1839 W. Carleton Fardorougha vi. 142 Confusion to the ring he'll ever put an her! I'd see her stretched first. 1859 F. Francis Newton Dogvane I. 255 As for paying for him, tell him I'll see him somethinged and somethinged else first. 1921 B. Fleming Crooked House xxiii. 211 ‘I'll see you in hell first!’ he retorted brutally. 1953 G. Jones in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories (1976) 109 Favour, hell. I'll see you stuffed first! 2007 News Virginian (Waynesboro, Va.) (Nexis) 1 Sept. He told me before he'd let anybody take his family, he'd see me dead first. < as lemmas |
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