单词 | sauve-qui-peut |
释义 | sauve-qui-peutn. (a) n. A general stampede or complete rout. (b) phr. (in the original French sense.) Hence as v., to stampede or scatter in flight. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1815 |
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