| 单词 | at jar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat (a) jar c. at (a) jar, †at jars: at discord, in a state of dissension or variance. †to fall at jar: to fall out, to quarrel (obsolete). Cf. ajar adv.2 Now rare. ΘΚΠ 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 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] threapc1175 disputea1225 thretec1400 varyc1450 fray1465 to fall out1470 to set (or fall) at variancec1522 quarrel1530 square1530 to break a straw1542 to be or to fall at (a) square1545 to fall at jar1552 cowl1556 tuilyie1565 jarl1580 snarl1597 to fall foul1600 to cast out1730 fisticuff1833 spat1848 cagmag1882 rag1889 to part brass-rags1898 hassle1949 blue1955 1552 Acts Privy Council 23 July (1892) IV. 102 A letter to the Mayour and townes men of Excestre willing them..to contynnewe in frendship with..the gentlemen with whome they were lately at jarre. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1534/2 You are at iarre emongest your selues. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 77/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I The Citizens and Ormond his army, fell at some iarre. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 122 The Germane princes were still at a jarre about the choice of their emperours. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 74 An hugger-mugger of meddlesom beings all at jars. a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 220 The hues of colour in the sky and distance must frequently be at jar with the light and shade of the advanced parts. 1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 139 The life seen and temporal, and the life eternal are at a jar. at jar In the phrases on (upon) the jar, †on (a) jar, †at jar, on the turn, partly open, ajar adv.1: cf. chare n.1 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [phrase] > partly open (of doors, etc.) on (upon) the jar1674 off the latch1842 off the sneck1897 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 7 The fulfilledness or perfection of the will in the next life, will not be in a standing at jar, and wavering alike towards good and evil. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 45 Finding a Door upon the jar. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xiii. 19 The door was on the jar, and, gently opening it, I entered and stood behind her unperceived. 1794 A. M. Bennett Ellen II. 112 She found..the hall door on jar. a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) ii. ii, in Wks. (1821) II. 46 She never absolutely shuts her mouth, but leaves it always on a jar, as it were,—thus. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiii. 361 ‘I see Mrs. Bardell's street door on the jar.’ ‘On the what?’ exclaimed the little Judge. ‘Partly open, my lord,’ said Sergeant Snubbin. < as lemmas |
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