单词 | ripping up |
释义 | > as lemmasripping up 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. ripping up 2. figurative uses. Frequently in ripping up. ΚΠ 1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie iv. f. 62 Calling it scanning of tenses, ripping vp of syllables, and hunting after letters. a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 267 Indeuour the ripping vp of thy heart. 1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 254 If..there should be now a ripping up of Crimes,..no man can see where it will stop. 1701 R. Cocks Diary in D. W. Hayton Parliamentary Diary (1996) 67 Jack How said sir I do not know what is the meaning of the ripping of these old storyes. 1759 J. Adams Diary (1961) I. 97 Ripping, i.e., using the Words faith, Devil, I swear, damnable..displease the Dr. but especially his Wife. 1843 J. W. Croker Let. 5 Dec. in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxiii. 13 I cannot..understand what authority can exist for such a ripping up of private life. 1863 Sat. Rev. 12 Sept. 352 Five years ago, there was a great ripping-up of the skirts of society. 1908 J. B. Matthews & G. F. Spear Money-lenders Act i. 55 The writers submit that the expunging of the default clause, rather than the ripping up of the whole transaction, might more nearly work justice. 1993 L. Friedman Crime & Punishment in Amer. Hist. ix. 196 Mobility..means..the ripping up of roots, the destruction of fixed, settled ways. < as lemmas |
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