| 单词 | mind your eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmind your eye p. mind your eye: used in the imperative, as warning of danger to a person's eyes; (now usually) figurative (colloquial and regional) ‘be careful’, ‘watch out’. N.E.D. (1894) interpreted the line from the ballad cited in quot. 1630 as showing a variant phrase beware your eye, following the reading given in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. cxlv. 201/2, ‘The ladies gave a shout, “Woodcock, beware thyn ee!”’, but no other evidence for this form of the phrase has been found, and all other 17th-cent. versions of the ballad give the phrase in the form ‘beware thy knee’. ΚΠ 1630 Renowned Robin Hood (single sheet) ii The Ladies gaue a shout, Woodcock beware thy nee.] 1766 R. Rogers Ponteach i. ii. 11 Conceal yourself, and mind your Eye. 1790 D. Morison Poems 187 Aurther mind your eye, When..ance ye're fairly ty'd and she your wife, Ye'll ken the crosses o' a married life. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxx. 108 He would recommend him..to mind his eye for the future. 1891 H. Herman His Angel 37 ‘Mind your eye, sir,’ at last cried the young man, ‘and don't budge. We've got to get that partition beam away. It's that that's crushing you.’ 1950 R. Davies At my Heart's Core i. 23 I..levelled ye with me fist, that's what happened to ye. And I'll do it again if ye don't mind yer eye. 2005 Scotsman (Nexis) 28 Oct. 33 If doing the opposite of what you say you will do is the principle to be established, mind your eye. < as lemmas |
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