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单词 shut off steam
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shut off steam
d. In phrases descriptive of the working of a steam-engine, esp. of a locomotive; often used figuratively; e.g. (at) full (half, etc.) steam; with full or all one's steam on; to have (all, much, etc.) steam on; to get up steam, put on steam; to blow off steam, shut off steam, turn off steam; under steam, with steam up, in steam, with the engine working or ready to start working; under one's own steam; like steam (Australian), furiously; to let off steam: frequently figurative, to relieve one's pent-up energy by vigorous activity; to give vent to one's feelings, esp. harmlessly; to run out of steam: see to run out of —— 1c at run v. Phrasal verbs 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [adjective] > working or ready to start working
in steam1768
under steam1860
with steam up1870
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > operate steam engine [verb (intransitive)] > turn off or let off steam
shut off steam1824
to let off steam1831
turn off steam1878
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > operate steam engine [verb (intransitive)]
to get up steam1832
put on steam1878
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] > give vent to feelings
acangc1225
to run out1719
to let off steam1857
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > power of
indicated (horse-) power1875
(at) full (half, etc.) steam1878
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy
with (also in) mood and maineOE
vigour13..
with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330
with (one's) forcec1380
like anything1665
hammer and tongs1708
like stour1787
(in) double tides1788
like blazes1818
like winking1827
with a will1827
like winky1830
like all possessed1833
in a big way1840
like (or worse than) sin1840
full swing1843
like a Trojan1846
like one o'clock1847
like sixty1848
like forty1852
like wildfire1857
like old boots1865
like blue murder1867
like steam1905
like stink1929
like one thing1938
like a demon1945
up a storm1953
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [phrase] > with no aid from others
under one's own steam1912
1768 Watt in Muirhead Invent. Watt (1854) I. 18 I am now getting an apparatus ready for setting it [the engine] wholly in steam as before.
1824 ‘R. Stuart’ Descr. Hist. Steam Engine 132 The motion of the piston was equalized by shutting off the steam sooner or later from the cylinder.
1831 Rep. Select Comm. Steam Carriages 20 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 324) VIII. 203 Are you frequently obliged to let off steam?
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. iii. 39 I have..a way of going a-head, by getting up the steam..—and the fuel is brandy.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlvii. 512 Get on a little faster; put a little more steam on, Ma'am, pray.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow I. xi. 144 The widow..sat..fuming and blowing off her steam.
1844 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 301 Get up your steam, if this weather lasts, and have a ramble in Wales.
1851 Blackburn Standard 5 Nov. 2/5 The steamer's officers ordering full steam ahead.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. ii. 261 Now jumping the old iron-bound tables,..then joining in some chorus of merry voices; in fact, blowing off his steam, as we should now call it.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 216 Orders were given..to let the ship go under easy steam.
1863 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 249/1 This is a free country, and a few eloquent or blustering Radicals serve to ‘let off the steam’ of their class.
1869 H. James Let. 16 Apr. in J. Strouse Alice James (1980) viii. 138 I feel an irresistible need to let off steam periodically & to confide to a sympathetic ear the impressions which the week has generated in my soul.
1870 Remin. Amer. 203 Their steam fire-engines..are always kept in readiness with steam up and the horses harnessed.
1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. June 392/2 The Forward was under steam, ready to seize the first opening to make her exit.
1878 W. H. G. Kingston Three Admirals xviii. 416 Full steam was put on.
1878 W. H. G. Kingston Three Admirals xviii. 417 The engineer having thoughtfully turned off the steam to prevent the boilers from exploding.
1881 M. Reynolds Engine-driving Life 112 Of course his engine is in steam. All is done for him.
1883 G. M. Fenn Middy & Ensign xxxix. 237 Every effort being made by the firemen to get up steam.
1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 107 ‘And he [the bull] came for you?’ ‘When he'd got up steam he did.’
1893 Times 14 Aug. 8/6 Captain Hicks immediately ordered full steam astern, and at the same moment the helm to be put a starboard.
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 82 I naturally went to grass through having too much steam on to be able to pull up in time.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 71 Half-steam ahead by guess and lead, for the sun is mostly veiled.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 147 A result of some previous shutting off of nervous steam.
1905 H. Lawson Coll. Verse (1968) II. 4 We was draftin' 'em out for the homeward track and sharin' 'em round like steam.
1912 Conrad in English Rev. XI. 311 We are not allowed to bring them in under their own steam.
1916 H. J. Laski in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) I. 25 I intend to write you a weekly letter to Washington—for I must let off steam somewhere.
1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. 70 Commonsense says that it is better..‘to let off steam’ than to ‘eat your heart out’.
1920 Times 9 Apr. 10/1 Mr Chamberlain yesterday received the order to go full steam ahead with his budget.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 737/3 She..wrote sedate and quite readable novels to the prescribed pattern—but let off steam in stormy poems privately printed.
1949 J. Symons Bland Beginning 142 ‘Would you be kind enough to..see Miss Cleverly home.’ ‘That's not necessary... I can move under my own steam.’
1976 J. I. M. Stewart Young Pattullo iii. 72 It's just a dining club letting off steam.
1979 B. Hardy World owes Me Nothing 102 I hammered at the door like steam and over he came and opened it.
2012 Foreign Affairs 91 iii. 129 As Western governments have scaled back their support for renewable power, China has been pushing full steam ahead.
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