单词 | out of a person's head |
释义 | > as lemmasout of a person's head (a) out of a person's head: from a person's mind, imagination, or invention. Often in the more emphatic form out of a person's own head. Frequently somewhat colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adjective] > of one's own invention of one's own study1529 out of a person's own head1548 self-devised1608 1548 G. Joye tr. A. Osiander Coniectures Ende of Worlde iv. sig. Fiij When he speketh lyes, he speketh them oute of hys owne head [L. ex propriis]. 1599 T. Bilson Effect Certaine Serm. 404 You tell a long and a foolish tale of death out of your owne heade. 1653 J. Bramhall Answer to M. de la Militiere 203 He that..denies a temporall Kingdom to give an eternall, doth not wrong us. This was out of your head. 1680 R. L'Estrange Narr. of Plot 17 He made Several Alterations..in the Epistle, out of his own head, after it was composed at the Presse. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 280 It came from you, and not out of my own Head. 1820 Eclectic Rev. Sept. 164 All this, not being in Burton, we take it for granted is out of Mr. Keats's own head, as the children say. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 288 Were not all these answers given out of his own head? 1919 Times 25 Nov. 15/5 He..drew scraggy animals out of his own head. 1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. xxix. 455 He sat down and out of his head painted the head in without having seen Gertrude Stein again. 2003 M. Warnock in J. Baggini & J. Stangroom What Philosophers Think (2005) xv. 159 She had these amazing ideas which turned out to be very like Leibniz's.., but they seem to have come entirely out of her own head. < as lemmas |
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