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单词 passage of arms
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passage of (also at) arms
15. In later use more fully passage of (also at) arms. An exchange of blows between two combatants; a duel, a fight. Also figurative: a verbal altercation or dispute.
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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of > a hostile encounter
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1608 G. Chapman Byrons Conspiracie i. i We should not set these passages of Splene Twixt Spaine and Sauoy; to the weaker part, More good by suffrance growes, than deedes of heart.
1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. ii, in Wks. I. 237 You haue your passages, and imbroccata's in courtship.
?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 145 Wh[itelocke]..acquainted him with all the passages, & he..laying his hand uppon his sword, [etc.].
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. xiv. 287 We drink this beaker..to the health of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, champion of this passage of arms.
1885 Manch. Examiner 21 Mar. 6/2 The most interesting part of the debate was a smart passage at arms between his Grace and Lord Bramwell.
1908 E. F. Benson Climber 160 There had been that little passage before dinner; there had been just a shade of friction about her smoking.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 596 The listeners..followed the passage of arms with interest so long as they didn't indulge in recriminations and come to blows.
1988 M. Ivins in Ms. Nov. 19/3 There was an interesting passage-at-arms involving George Bush's sister.
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