| 单词 | mollify the fist |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto mollify the fist c. In various phrases: to grease the fist or (one) in the fist: to bribe, pay well; so, †to mollify the fist. to make a (good, poor, etc.) fist: colloquial (originally U.S. and dialect) to make a (good, etc.) attempt at or of something. Also, hand over fist, hand to fist: see hand to fist adv. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe meedOE underorna1325 corrump1387 forbuy1393 hirec1400 wage1461 fee1487 under-arearc1503 bribe1528 grease1528 money1528 corrupt1548 budc1565 to feed with money1567 to put out a person's eyes with (a gift, bribe, etc.)1580 sweeten1594 to grease the fist or (one) in the fist1598 over-bribe1619 to buy off1629 palter1641 to take off1646 buy1652 overmoneya1661 bub1684 to speak to ——1687 to tickle in the palm1694 daub1699 overbuy1710 touch1752 palm1767 to get at ——1780 fix1790 subsidize1793 sop1837 to buy over1848 backsheesh1850 nobble1856 square1859 hippodrome1866 see1867 boodleize1883 boodle1886 to get to ——1901 reach1906 straighten1923 lubricate1928 to keep (someone) sweet1939 sling1939 to pay off1942 bung1950 the world > action or operation > endeavour > attempt [verb (transitive)] fandOE assayc1300 tryc1315 provec1330 adventurea1387 sayc1390 paina1400 havec1400 practisea1450 afforcec1487 afond1488 attempta1538 procure1574 endeavour1581 offer1611 poacha1616 attent1620 to venture at1623 essay1641 attentate1656 smacka1657 tempt1697 to try at1794 to have a go1802 to make a (good, poor, etc.) fist1833 tackle1847 to have or take a whack at1891 to make (or have, etc.) a stab at (something)1895 to have a dash (at)1916 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. v. 36 That some fat bribe might greaze him in the fist. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 98 Till a right understanding be created..which commonly follows when the Fist is mollified. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 111 I had now and then greased the Chief Surgeons Fist. 1833 A. Greene Life & Adv. D. Duckworth ii. 8 You hadn't ought to tax any thing..seeing you've made such a fist of it. 1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron v. 46 He reckoned he should make a better fist at farming than edicating. 1841 W. G. Simms Kinsmen II. 24 You made a poor fist of this business. 1869 A. C. Gibson Folk-speech Cumberland 177 Thoo hes mead a fist on't. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlvi. 240 'Tis a poor fist I can make at hearing anything. 1880 W. D. Howells Undiscovered Country v. 87 Mrs. Burton is really making a very pretty fist at a salon. 1920 J. Galsworthy In Chancery iii. iii. 255 He made a poor fist of sleeping. 1950 E. A. McCourt Home is Stranger (1951) ii. 31 He doesn't make much of a fist at farming. 1965 Listener 2 Dec. 934/2 You could make a much better fist of it than the experts. to mollify the fist ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (intransitive)] > practise bribery to grease (a person's) hand (also palm)1528 to anoint a person's hand1542 bribe1547 whiddlec1661 to mollify the fist1698 boodle1887 to oil a person's palm1925 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 98 Making the Merchant dance attendance till a right understanding be created betwixt the Shawbunder and them, which commonly follows when the Fist is mollified. < as lemmas |
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