| 单词 | ripping off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasripping off b. With adverbs, as ripping off, ripping up, etc. ΚΠ 1609 T. Morton Catholike Appeale ii. xiii. 251 What shall we speake of baptizing by mad-men, & by Pagans, and in scorne, and with puddle water, euen vnto the ripping vp of the mothers belly. 1746 Fool (1748) I. 77 The Ripping up and Disembowelling of the dead Bodies. 1876 T. W. Knox Underground lxi. 875 Spot was getting ready for a growl, and began to peel his ivories like the ripping up of an old shoe. 1946 Cosmopolitan Oct. 141/1 On the particular occasion which was to prove prologue to the inevitable ripping off of the velvet glove, we had a caller. 1994 Church Times 21 Oct. 19/2 If only Mary Shelley had confined herself to one thing: turning out a model Gothic tale of horror with the usual ingredients—the elixir of life, lonely hillsides, ghostly castles, graveyards, and the ripping up of innocent guts. < as lemmas |
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