| 单词 | in one's claws |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin one's claws 3. figurative. (Chiefly in in one's claws, etc., implying the notion of seizing, or having in one's possession or power.) to pare the claws of is a common phrase resting immediately on sense 1, but usually figurative in use. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > [noun] > possession and control > possession and power or clutches gripOE handgripOE crook?c1225 fist1297 fangera1300 holtc1375 in one's clawsc1386 clutcha1529 handgripe1534 clamps1548 clums1567 clamsa1569 embracement1599 pounce1614 embracea1627 society > authority > lack of power > deprive of power [verb (transitive)] > reduce the power of weaken1530 to shorten the arm or hand of1535 weaken1568 emasculate1608 to pare the claws of1884 defang1919 declaw1940 c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 356 Me fro the feend and fro his clowes keepe. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Isocrates in Panoplie Epist. 185 After that he had aspired to principalitie, and had caught governement within his clawes. a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 221 So subtill is the deuill to make roome for himselfe, when hee hath once got in his claw. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 87 What's Justice to a man, or Laws, That never comes within their Claws? 1790 W. Cowper Let. 26 Nov. (1982) III. 433 I am happy that you have escaped from the claws of Euclid. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Oct. 1/1 To draw the teeth and pare the claws of the Peers. < as lemmas |
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