| 单词 | in, all of a tremble |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(all) in, all of a tremble b. In colloquial phrases (all) in, all of a tremble, on or upon the tremble, trembling, esp. with agitation or excitement. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adverb] > in state of nervous excitement out1598 in a tweak1699 (all) in, all of a tremble1769 on or upon the tremble1800 on the tittup (also on tittups)1873 aflutter1886 1719 Miss Howe in Lett. C'tess Suffolk (1824) I. 39 Mama has invited me to stay here,..which put me in such a tremble that I am hardly recovered. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 11 I am all of a tremble. 1800 C. Lamb Let. 20 May in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 207 I am still on the tremble. For I do not know where we could go. 1830 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 35/2 He seemed all of a totter and tremble. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 206 Why should I be in such a tremble all the while he talked? < as lemmas |
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