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单词 out of lash
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out of (a person's) lash
b. Used poetically and rhetorically = ‘whip, scourge’. literal and figurative. Also in phrase, †out of (a person's) lash: out of danger from (his) attacks.
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the world > action or operation > safety > perfectly safe [phrase] > beyond danger of something
out of gunshot1556
lash1577
without the peril of1600
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge
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scourgea1225
whipc1325
swaipa1400
flagellec1430
flail?a1475
foueta1492
scorpion1541
lash1577
sot1588
thong1592
chawbuck1698
knout1716
taw1787
flagellum1807
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 102/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I He was out of his lashe that mynded to haue betrayed him.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 209 The slave fears the lash of his cruell Master.
1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered 197 The Vulgar Latin scapes the lash pretty well.
1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 457 The Lash resounds, the rapid Chariot flies.
1732 C. Wogan Let. to Swift 27 Feb. in J. Swift Wks. (1803) XVIII. 188 Lest they should fall under the lash of the penal laws.
1786 F. Burney Diary 28 Nov. (1842) III. 232 With all this..she has not escaped the lash of scandal.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury lxxxv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 323 Apollo..gave him in return the glittering lash, Installing him as herdsman.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 288 The Persians..were driven on to the conflict by the lash of their commanders.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid vi, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 289 Tisiphone..Scourges the trembling sinners, her fierce lash arming her hands.
1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 117 Hunger is as keen a lash as the whip of the overseer of slaves.
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