| 单词 | running low |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrunning low b. With following adjective, forming nouns of action corresponding to uses of run v., as running amok, running astray, running low, running wild, etc. ΚΠ a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Giiiiv Cyrcumspeccyon inhateth all rennynge a stray. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Aventamiento The running headlong. 1650 in Arch. Maryland (1891) 10 49 The Court conceiving the first occasion of the running Wild of the Cattell. 1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. lxxv. 458 This Bannyan..caused a Running a Muck. 1797 J. Adams Let. 21 Feb. in E. Quincy Life J. Quincy (1867) ii. 54 We may smile a little sub rosa at these runnings astray after stolen waters of our good friends. 1832 J. Vose Compend. Astron. vi. 103 The running low seldom attracts particular notice. 1858 Sat. Rev. 6 Nov. 438/1 The furious unpatriotic running-a-muck on all our institutions. 1906 Salt Lake Tribune 2 Apr. 7/2 The running astray of the weather has caused the opening games to be postponed. 1929 Miami Daily News 18 June 4/1 To insure that we use none but our own oil, and so hasten still further the running dry of our own wells! 2001 N. Williams Fall of Light (2003) 240 It might have been nothing but the running amok of hot, bloody-minded thugs. < as lemmas |
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