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单词 sauve-qui-peut
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sauve-qui-peutn.

/səʊvkiˈpʊ/
Etymology: French, substantive use of a phrase = ‘Save (himself) who can’.
(a) n. A general stampede or complete rout. (b) phr. (in the original French sense.) Hence as v., to stampede or scatter in flight.
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society > armed hostility > defeat > [noun]
confusionc1290
scomfit13..
cumber1303
discomfitc1330
scomfitingc1333
discomfiturea1400
scomfiturea1400
discomfitingc1405
overthrowc1440
male journey1455
overset1456
foilc1478
discomforture1485
supprise1488
reversea1529
distrage?1548
loss1548
defeat1553
underdeal1553
discomfort1589
defeatment1598
defeature1598
rufflec1600
defeatance1608
routa1616
Caudine Forks1619
disrout1623
conviction1631
bang1644
derout1644
conquest1677
drubbing1769
check1793
thrashing1797
sauve-qui-peut1815
debacle1847
smash1888
pasting1942
the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > panic
frightnessc1425
amaze1587
amazedness1587
terrification1601
panic1640
sauve-qui-peut1815
panic stations1918
tailspin1921
the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > [noun] > heavy or crushing
overset1456
Pharsalia1693
smashing1821
rout1831
sauve-qui-peut1861
drubbing1884
smash1888
pounding1912
shellacking1931
fucking?1945
bloodbath1967
wipeout1968
skinning1972
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee > flee in disorder
pell-mella1864
sauve-qui-peut1939
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Sauve qui peut! Fr. Let those escape that can. This expression is familiar to the French in moments of defeat, and great disorder.]
1815 W. Scott Let. Aug. (1933) IV. 83 The Marechals followed his [sc. Buonaparte's] example; and it was the most complete sauve qui peut that can well be imagined.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges i. 41 What a fine satirical picture we might have had of that general sauve qui peut amongst the Tory party!
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 321/2 Sauve qui peut was the universal cry; and..in less than six weeks above seventy banking establishments were swept off.
1907 ‘A. Hope’ Tales Two People 133 The poor Stock fell two points more: there had been a sauve qui peut of the timid holders.
1939 tr. E. N. Marais's My Friends the Baboons iii. 35 All the baboons do in such a case is sauve qui peut with an alarm-call that makes the mountains echo.
1964 Reading Teacher Dec. 211/1 Working-class whites, themselves anthropologically unsophisticated, join the sauve qui peut in search of a suburban haven.
1973 Times 26 Nov. 15/4 It is difficult to understand the Government's present policy, or indeed that of any of the oil users. Sauve qui peut will serve no one well in the long run.
1980 Guardian 11 Nov. 10/8 It is in those hallowed halls of the UN..that I feel most keenly the theatre of anarchy; of sauve-qui-peut.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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