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单词 let go one's grips
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let go one's grips
a. Firm or tenacious hold, grasp, or control; power, mastery (now esp. associated with the idea of oppression or irresistible force). †Formerly also plural as to fasten one's grips on, let go one's grips, etc. Also to get (or take) a grip on (oneself), to get to grips with (something).
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society > authority > control > [noun] > control and possession
wieldnesseOE
fathomOE
waldOE
wieldOE
wieldingOE
woldc1275
grip1508
gripe1532
graspa1616
the world > health and disease > mental health > be sane [verb (intransitive)] > become sane
uncloud1793
sanify1836
to get (or take) a grip on (oneself)1895
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > begin an action or fall to doing something > resolutely or vigorously
to sit in1736
strap1823
to get down1826
tackle1841
to buckle down (to)1865
to bite on1904
to wade into1904
to get stuck into1910
to get one's teeth into1935
to sink one's teeth into1935
to get stuck in1938
to get to grips with1947
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. dii Al the gretest Of gomys that grip has..Of baronis and burowis [etc.].
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. b In his grippis and ye gane He wald ourcum yow ilk ane.
1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. v. 40 Gif ȝe lat ga that is in ȝour grippis.
1600 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (Bannatyne Club) II. 283 I cair nocht for all the land I hew in this kingdome, incase I get a grip of Dirleton.
1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. G3 Let these weake Birds..Submit to those that are of grip and might.
1632 S. Rutherford Let. 9 Mar. (1848) xxiii. 49 Loose your grips of them all [fears].
a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 127 Fasten your grips on the other world, and let your grip of this go.
1832 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 9 Nov. (1884) II Promoting a subscription to purchase Abbotsford..out of the grip of creditors.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 139 The clutching old man had lost his grip on life.
1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xviii. 213 Perhaps no other religion..holds its votaries clutched in such a paralysing grip.
1894 J. Knight D. Garrick i. 7 The grip of poverty is everywhere apparent.
1895 Harper's Nov. 962/1 My dear boy, get a grip on yourself... I won't bite you.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 627 In the grip of malarial fever, on his way to the grave.
1898 J. Caird Univ. Serm. 94 The iron grip of long unresisted habits.
1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 174 My throat wouldn't quit trying to laugh, like retching after your stomach is empty. ‘Whoa, now,’ Anse said. ‘Get a grip on yourself.’
1947 Sci. News 4 7 They [sc. readers] have to translate his article into understandable language before they can get to grips with its actual subject matter.
1950 R. Ackland Before Party in Plays of Year 1949 611 Don't be such a foolish woman... Sit down and take a grip on yourself.
1955 Times 25 July 5/4 What we have now agreed makes it possible to get to grips with the twin problems of the unity of Germany and the security of Europe.
1967 S. Beckett No's Knife 52 Come now, come now, he said, get a grip on yourself, be a man.
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