| 单词 | at handicuffs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat handicuffs A blow or cuff with the hand. Also in at handicuffs: fighting hand-to-hand; to come (also go) to handicuffs: to begin hand-to-hand fighting. Also figurative. Usually in plural. Cf. handy blow n., fisticuff n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the hand handstroke1488 hand blow?1569 cuff1570 handy blow1572 kerry-merry-buff1598 cuffing1610 handicuff1611 hander1829 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Alle bótte..Also at blowes, at handicuffes, at stroakes. 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 985 Whensoeuer they met, they wrestled and fought at handie cuffes. 1660 J. Horne Truth's Triumph over Deceit 22 I was able to beat him at handicuffs. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World vii. 263 They..must have gone to handy-cuffs with the enemy, having no pistols or cutlasses. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxi. 110 His rhetoric and conduct were at perpetual handy-cuffs. 1773 J. Berridge Christian World Unmasked 182 If your words are very rough, you may bring on a furious handy-cuff. 1816 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 4) 383/2 Jeux de main, manual play, or what are vulgarly called handicuffs. 1894 P. H. Hunter James Inwick (1896) x. 89 Auld frien's cam nigh to handicuffs ower the question o' the kirk, an' wadna darken ane anither's doors. 1909 E. S. Dorrance Maid & Man v. 126 Men justify themselves for mental handicuffs with women. 1919 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 14 302 Handicuffs of boys in play are of the same type. < as lemmas |
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