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单词 at daggers' drawing
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at (or to) daggers' drawing
2. figurative. daggers' drawing: the commencement of open hostilities. at (or to) daggers' drawing, now at daggers drawn: on (or to) the point of fighting or quarrelling; in a state of open hostility. Also (rarely) at daggers' points.at daggers drawn is found in 1668, but becomes usual only in 19th cent.
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society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase]
in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275
in strife1398
at traversc1448
at issue1474
at a strife1488
at variancea1535
at square1545
at (a) jar1552
at (or to) daggers' drawing1556
at (a) mutiny1567
in (a) mutiny1567
at wrig-wrag1599
at daggers drawn1668
at (or at the, on the) outs1824
loggerhead1831
at daggers' points1857
at swords' points1890
the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [adverb]
at (or to) daggers' drawing1556
at wrig-wrag1599
at daggers drawn1668
at daggers' points1857
at swords' points1890
1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 11v They..amonge themselues ar wonte to be at daggers drawing.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 267 That countrie was at defiaunce and daggers drawing with the lande of Græcia.
1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 19 The Grandees of the Court were com almost to daggers drawing.
1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 214 Upon this Point, were they at Daggers-drawn with the Emperor.
1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 232 A Quarrel in a Tavern, where all were at Daggers-drawing.
1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 52 Three ladies..talked of for his second wife, all at daggers drawing with each other.
1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. xviii. 35 You will be at daggers-drawing..with every order..of persons in the town.
1837 Lady L. Stuart Introd. Anecdotes in Lett. & Wks. Lady M. W. Montagu's I. 77 This lady inherited such a share of her grandmother's imperial spirit, as to..insure daggers drawing as soon as it should find..opportunity to display itself.
1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxx. 582 Five minutes hence we may be at daggers' points.
1860 R. B. Brough Marston Lynch xxiv. 257 Was Marston still at daggers drawn with his rich uncle?
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