| 单词 | in, into, out of his clutches |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin, into, out of his clutches a. The hand, or more commonly in plural ‘hands in a sense of rapacity and cruelty’ (Johnson). In the expressions in, into, out of his clutches, the sense has since the 17th cent. gradually passed from ‘claws, grasping hands’, to ‘grips, grasp, tight-hold’ as in 3. The singular, ‘in his clutch’, has even more completely passed from ‘claw’ to ‘grasp’. 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 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] handeOE cleche?c1225 fista1300 dallea1500 clutcha1529 gripea1555 famble1567 claw1577 golla1586 patte1586 manus1598 pickers and stealers1604 fore-foota1616 pud1654 daddle?1725 fin1785 mauley1789 feeler1825 maniple1829 flipper1832 flapper1834 grappler1852 duke1874 mitt1893 α. β. 1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 99 At last I got you out of his Clooks [margin Clutches].γ. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 142/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The earle hauing the gouernor..within his clooches.1600 W. Watson Quodlibets Relig. & State (1602) 32 If euer they get me within their clooches.δ. c1430 Hermes Bird xlviii, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 233 In Chorles clowchys com y never more.] a1535 T. More Wks. (R.) ii. (R.) I haue thee in my clouche [rhyme pouche].1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1270/1 Good Samuell..meekelye yelded him selfe into their clouches.1587 Let. 28 Aug. in Harleian MS 296 46 If the flete of the Peru..fall in Dracke's clowches.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. x. sig. Mm3v Too wise..To come into his clouch again.1642 T. Taylor God's Judgem. i. ii. i. 153 A cruell and ougly shaped divell, striving..to get into his clouches a yong man.ε. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 72 But age..hath clawed me in his clutch . View more context for this quotation1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 85 From the greasie clutch of ignorance, and high feeding.1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme i. viii. 22 Gigantick Spirits..who..might take the Planets up in their prodigious Clutches.1676 E. Stillingfleet Def. Disc. Idolatry ii. iv. 786 If I ever more come near the Clutches of such a Giant.1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 163 Before, 'twas in your Clutches, Pow'r.1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 24 To get her again into his Clutches.1699 R. L'Estrange Fables (ed. 3) i ii. 2 It was the fortune of a cock to fall into the clutches of a cat.1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 25. ⁋4 [He] escapes the Clutches of the Hangman.1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxx. 109 I had got out of his Clutches.1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 259 It was left to the clutches of the law.1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) IV. xviii. 143 Wulf fell into William's clutches.a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fii Mag. Why is yonder, that grymly lokys Fansy. Adewe for I wyll not come in his clokys. < as lemmas |
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