| 单词 | or perish in the attempt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasor perish in the attempt P2. or perish in the attempt chiefly hyperbolical : appended to a resolve or promise, indicating that one will risk one's life, or try one's utmost, to carry it out. ΚΠ 1652 C. Manuche Loyal Lovers v. i. 46 Poor Gentlewoman, I will redeem thy Adrastus Or perish in the attempt. a1689 A. Behn Younger Brother (1696) iii. iii. 31 Soft Love, and mightier Friendship seizes all. I'll save him, tho' I perish in the Attempt. 1730 T. Cibber Lover 26 I'm determin'd to overcome 'em [sc. my difficulties] all, or perish in the Attempt. 1793 H. Boyd Helots ii, in Poems 53 To gain that lovely maid in whose blue veins The hopes unite of that old regal line.—I cross him there, or perish in the attempt. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 23 [He was] as resolved as ever to get to Sandford and back before hall time, or perish in the attempt. 1870 L. M. Alcott Old-fashioned Girl xvii. 337 He..sternly resolved to be an honor to his family, or perish in the attempt. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxiii. 256 I shall walk that ridge-pole, Diana, or perish in the attempt. 1938 M. Gervaise Distance Enchanted iv. 73 We'll have a happy Christmas,..or perish in the attempt! 2007 B. Tighe Identity Cards xiv. 132 Jady..was going to make serious amounts of money out of the government's folly or perish in the attempt. < as lemmas |
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