| 单词 | knock daylight into |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto let (also knock, put, etc.) daylight through (or into) P3. slang. to let (also knock, put, etc.) daylight through (or into): to put a hole into; to wound with a knife, sword, bullet, etc.; to stab or shoot, often fatally. Now archaic. ΚΠ 1758 Mem. Celebrated Miss Fanny M—— I. vi. 53 The officer descended first, and brandishing his sword, made several lounges, crying, ‘Here I have the scoundrel;—there I shew day-light through the rascal.’ 1793 A. Young Example of France (ed. 3) 172 In the language of the streets, day-light is let into him. 1841 Punch 12 Sept. 101/2 With the facetious intention of ‘letting daylight into the wittling department’ of the pot-boy of the ‘Ram and Radish’. 1881 Punch 17 Sept. 124/1 Ready at the call of duty to frame a new programme or knock daylight into an old one. 1898 W. A. Keesy War as viewed from Ranks viii. 50 You son of ——!.. Clear out with you or I'll put day light through you! 1916 N. Kussy Abyss v. 143 If you don't like it I'll punch daylight through your putty-faced mug. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 314 The Molly Maguires looking for him to let daylight through him. 1976 Daily Capital News (Jefferson City, Missouri) 18 June 4/1 If I had a gun handy I would let daylight through him. to knock daylight into a. transitive. To give a hard blow or blows to; to hit, strike, beat, hammer; †to beat into small pieces, pound (obsolete). Also with complement expressing result, as to knock to (or in) pieces, etc., to knock a hole, gap, etc.; to knock daylight into (cf. daylight n. Phrases 3). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] swingc725 slayc825 knockc1000 platOE swengea1225 swipa1225 kill?c1225 girdc1275 hitc1275 befta1300 anhitc1300 frapa1330 lushc1330 reddec1330 takec1330 popc1390 swapa1400 jod?14.. quella1425 suffetc1440 smith1451 nolpc1540 bedunch1567 percuss1575 noba1586 affrap1590 cuff?1611 doda1661 buffa1796 pug1802 nob1811 scud1814 bunt1825 belt1838 duntle1850 punt1886 plunk1888 potch1892 to stick one on1910 clunk1943 zonk1950 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike hard or vigorously dingc1300 knock1377 thwack1533 stoter1690 sock1699 whack1721 slog1824 whither1825 drub1849 thack1861 slug1862 dang1866 whomp1973 c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 142 genim þonne þa leaf, cnuca on anum mortere. c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 168 genim þa wyrte gecnucude [MS. B. gecnocode]. c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 382 Cnucige ealle ða wyrta. c1075 Indicia Monasterialia in Techmer's Zeitschrift II. 125 Þonne wege þu þine fyst, swilce þu wyrta cnocian wille. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 397 He bygan benedicite with a bolke, and his brest knocked. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xcvii. (Tollem, MS.) It [flax] is..knokked and bete, breyed and carfled. a1400–50 Alexander 639 Him wald he kenely on þe croune knok with his tablis. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2601 Kylle of hor knightes, knocke hom to dethe. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxijv Some knocked other on the elbow, and said softly he lieth. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 53 I haue an humour..to knock [1623 knocke] you indifferently well. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. i. 82 His knees knocking each other. View more context for this quotation 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 37 The Bar knocking in pieces all that are inflexible. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 424 [He] runs to open the door when it is knocked. 1881 Punch 17 Sept. 124/1 Ready at the call of duty to frame a new programme or knock daylight into an old one. 1890 A. Conan Doyle Sign of Four iv. 68 He knocked a hole..in the lath and plaster ceiling. 1906 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Irish Yesterdays 85 You may see him skilfully ‘knocking a gap’ (i.e. unbuilding a wall). < as lemmas |
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