单词 | out of lash |
释义 | > as lemmasout 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. ΘΚΠ 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 swepea700 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. < as lemmas |
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