standoffadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈstandɒf/, U.S.

/ˈstændˌɔf/,

/ˈstændˌɑf/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to stand off at stand v. Phrasal verbs 1.

Etymology: < to stand off at stand v. Phrasal verbs 1. Compare slightly earlier standoffish adj.

A. adj.

1. Distant and cold in manner; unfriendly, reserved, aloof; = standoffish adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > not affable

strange1338

estrangec1374

formal?1518

cold1557

squeamish1561

icy1567

buckrama1589

repulsive1598

starched1600

unaffable1603

stiff1608

withdrawing1611

reserved1612

aloof1639

cool1641

uncordial1643

inaffable1656

staunch1659

standfra1683

distant1710

starcha1716

distancing1749

pokerish1779

buckramed1793

angular1808

easeless1811

touch-me-not1817

starchy1824

standoffish1826

offish1827

poker-backed1830

standoff1837

stiffish1840

chilly1841

unapproachable1848

hedgehoggy1866

sticky1882

hard-to-get1899

stand-away1938

princesse lointaine1957

1837 T. Moore Diary 12 Oct. in Mem. (1856) VII. 203 Lady Lansdowne objected to the number of dirty houses that come up quite close to the Castle [of Windsor]. This Lord John said..he preferred..to the insulation of the great houses of the present day... [I] was all for the stand-off system of Lady Lansdowne; each rank in its own station.

1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. ii. 50 People generally like the other two much better. Catherine is so stand-off.

1922 A. Brown Old Crow xxxiv. 395 She had a direct address country folk liked. She was never ‘stand-off’, ‘stuck-up’.

2012 Brampton (Ont.) Guardian (Nexis) 12 May (Final ed.) (Whatson section) 1 Kendall's stand-off behavior comes as no surprise as the ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashian’ star is hounded daily by paparazzi, although she tries to be nice to the snappers who follow her around.

2. Rugby. Designating a halfback who forms a link between the scrum half and the three-quarters, or the position on the pitch of this player. Cf. fly n.² 1f, five-eighth n.Chiefly in standoff half n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > types of player > player or position

full back1875

goal kick1875

No. eight1876

goalkicker1879

three-quarter back1880

handler1888

three-quarter1889

heeler1892

scrum half1894

lock forward1898

standoff1902

five-eighth1905

hooker1905

threes1905

flying half1906

loose head1907

standoff1908

fly-half1918

fly1921

inside half1921

outside half1921

scrum1921

inside centre1936

flank forward1937

out-half1949

prop1950

prop forward1951

number eight1952

flanker1953

tight head1959

back-rower1969

second rower1969

striker1973

packman1992

1902 Western Times (Exeter) 27 Oct. 4/3 Last year's captain..is playing as stand-off half-back for Devonport Albion Reserves.

1931 Times 21 Feb. 5/1 A new stand-off player.

2019 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 2 July 40 Having signed a long-term contract at the AJ Bell Stadium, Lolohea is keen to make the standoff position his own.

3. Of an object: that projects or is positioned a short distance away from a surface or another object; that serves to hold something in such a position.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > positioned at a distance from a surface

standoff1952

1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 128/2 The well at the base of the shower-unit has a stand-off waste-pipe and the well can be used as a foot-bath.

1962 Air-cushion Vehicles 1 58/2 On top of the trusses are secured box-section full-length longerons, known as ‘stand-off booms’, which are braced together and complete the primary structure.

1977 Gramophone Oct. 743/1 The GC300..is finished with a..matt charcoal plastic base with four stand-off feet.

2003 Backwoods Home Mag. Jan. 62/1 Add a stand-off electric wire about four feet high, all around the fence.

4. Military. Designating a guided missile designed to be launched towards its target at long range; of or relating to such a missile.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [adjective] > of specific range

intermediate-range1956

standoff1957

1957 Del Rio (Texas) News-Herald 25 Apr. 1/7 British laboratories are working on a rocket powered ‘stand off bomb’ to be carried by Britain's new V class bombers.

1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War xlvi. 463 A long-range glider bomb, the BV 246..was thus an early example of a ‘stand-off’ missile.

1982 Navy News Mar. 18/2 With its considerable ‘stand-off’ range, it is designed to destroy or disable enemy warships up to the largest-known size.

2015 C. Murdock et al. Project Atom (Center for Strategic & Internat. Stud.) App. D. 62 A suite of long-range standoff nuclear attack munitions.

B. n.

a. Chiefly U.S. A contest or competition with no outright winner, or the result of this; a draw.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > draw or tie

tie1680

patt1735

love1742

tie game1742

game and game1745

draw1823

standoff1842

split1967

1842 Spirit of Times 7 May 116/1 The bet would be a stand-off between the parties.

1904 N.Y. Evening Post 6 Sept. 7 Rural Pennsylvania is very near a stand-off between the Republicans and the Democrats.

1938 Sun (Baltimore) 17 May 14/5 Supreme Court decisions were about a standoff. There was a ruling against the General Electric in a patent suit... The High Court agreed to consider the validity of the TVA on an appeal by eighteen Southeastern utilities.

2015 Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) (Nexis) 6 May (Sports section) b2 West and rival Normal Community played to a 1-all standoff after 11 innings.

b. Originally U.S. A deadlock between two equally matched opponents in a dispute or conflict; an impasse, a stalemate.See also Mexican standoff n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > a check or rebuff > complete check or impasse

checkmatec1440

blank1542

nonplus1582

noncome1600

choke1674

dead lock1781

impasse1851

no go1870

standoff1876

gridlock1981

1876 Sunday Mercury (N.Y.) 19 Mar. 2/5 ‘Go–!’ said he sternly then. ‘We will call it a stand-off, a Mexican stand-off, you lose your money, but you save your life!’

1958 Spectator 31 Oct. 588/2 On the Fuchs-Hillary standoff whether to continue to Scott Base or not..Sir Vivian tactfully writes: ‘Unfortunately this exchange became known publicly.’

1981 ‘E. V. Cunningham’ Case of Sliding Pool (1982) xii. 145 We can't do anything, neither can he. It's a standoff.

2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 19 Aug. i. 10/2 France's foreign minister recently said he believed it was still possible to resolve the standoff through diplomacy.

†2. Distance or coolness of manner; unfriendliness, aloofness. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability

strangenessc1386

unhomelinessc1440

fremdnessa1500

coldness1557

coolnessa1586

self-guarda1586

diskindness1596

formality1599

reservedness1606

inaffability1611

restrainta1616

unconess1637

chillness1639

froideur1645

distance1660

starchedness1670

buckram1682

starchness?1693

starch1694

reserve1711

stiffness1717

unapproachableness1727

retirement1803

angularity1824

standoffishness1826

distancy1836

chill1837

starchiness1844

unapproachability1846

hedgehogginess1858

standoff1865

offishness1867

aloofness1878

pokerishness1880

untouchableness1909

untouchability1919

stuffiness1926

1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. xxiv. 183 There's a stand-off about some women—what the men call a ‘nollimy tangere’.

1885 D. D. Porter Incidents Civil War xiv. 143 There was a kind of ‘stand-off’ between the army and the navy when acting together, which prevented them from working in harmony.

1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights vi. 164 I don't take any high-an-mighty stand-off from a lunkhead that's stole my melons.

†a. U.S. slang. An extension of credit; a postponement of payment. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1883 B. Harte In Carquinez Woods ii. 55 I reckon you'd better make it [sc. a bet] a stand-off for twenty-four hours, and I'll find out and let you know.

1891 M. E. Ryan Told in Hills iv. viii. 350 I got a stand-off on the hostilities—till your return.

1906 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Aug. 166/2 I've negotiated a stand-off at a delicatessen hut down-town.

b. A rest; a temporary cessation of activity. Cf. to stand off 2d at stand v. Phrasal verbs 1. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [noun] > a period of

leisurec1449

non-terminus1573

Sabbatism1582

non-term1607

recess1620

playtime1631

by-hour1639

vacancy1654

relache1780

lounge1806

spellc1845

pink-eye1901

seventh-inning stretch1915

standoff1918

timeout1931

the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation

pause1440

trip1584

interpause1595

wem1599

stand1602

vacation1617

interspiration1623

intercisiona1631

interregnum1659

lapse1838

shutdown1857

break1878

slip1898

seventh-inning stretch1915

standoff1918

1918 Jrnl. Royal Naval Med. Service 4 181 He should have four months ‘stand off’.

1930 C. R. Sansom Fights & Flights 100 He told me..to give my cars a stand-off for the rest of the day.

†4. U.S. Something which acts as a counterbalance. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > a counterbalance

counterpoise1594

opposition1594

counterbalance1640

offset1769

set-off1774

equipoise1780

makeweight1787

equilibrant1883

standoff1888

1888 Microcosm (N.Y.) Dec. 7/1 We are willing to allow this judicial estimate..to count as a stand-off against all the subsidized commendations.

1890 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 672/1 When therefore the lawyer hears the curses..of his impatient clients, the preferences of other clients..make a complete stand-off; and he feels that the law's delay is both bad and good.

5. Rugby. Short for standoff half n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > types of player > player or position

full back1875

goal kick1875

No. eight1876

goalkicker1879

three-quarter back1880

handler1888

three-quarter1889

heeler1892

scrum half1894

lock forward1898

standoff1902

five-eighth1905

hooker1905

threes1905

flying half1906

loose head1907

standoff1908

fly-half1918

fly1921

inside half1921

outside half1921

scrum1921

inside centre1936

flank forward1937

out-half1949

prop1950

prop forward1951

number eight1952

flanker1953

tight head1959

back-rower1969

second rower1969

striker1973

packman1992

1908 Observer 9 Feb. 11/1 When he found his standoff something of a failure he masked his play and upset every calculation of the Irishmen. And Portus, the standoff, was a failure.

1980 Sunday Times 21 Sept. 29 Even now, 100 days later, it's still something of a whirl for the Lions stand-off.

2004 Rugby World Feb. 88/2 At stand-off you get the ball in your hands so much more than I did on the wing, and that's what every player wants.

6. A component or device serving to hold an object clear of a surface or another object.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > putting or keeping at a distance > thing holding an object distant from a surface

standoff1955

1955 Record-Argus (Greenville, Pa.) 10 Feb. 14/1 (advt.) TV equipment at a saving... Stand off... .15.

1974 Physics Bull. Dec. 592/2 Two quartz blocks are positioned adjacent to the device, and a preformed gold tape is bonded across the quartz standoffs and the back contact of the diode.

2005 Backwoods Home July 88/1 The pictured hearth..was built against cement board fastened on standoffs.

Compounds

standoff half n. Rugby a halfback who forms a link between the scrum half and the three-quarters; the position on the pitch of this player; = fly-half n.

ΚΠ

1905 Daily Mail 7 Feb. 6/5 Moir..passed inwards to Summers for the stand-off half to race clean through.

1959 Times 6 July 4/3 Thomas at stand-off half handicapped himself and the three-quarters still further by standing to take his passes.

2007 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 Apr. 1 As one of Super League's top stand off halves he could expect to command a salary in the region of £120,000 a year.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	standoff
释义	standoffadj.n. Brit. /ˈstandɒf/, U.S. /ˈstændˌɔf/, /ˈstændˌɑf/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to stand off at stand v. Phrasal verbs 1. Etymology: < to stand off at stand v. Phrasal verbs 1. Compare slightly earlier standoffish adj. A. adj. 1. Distant and cold in manner; unfriendly, reserved, aloof; = standoffish adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > not affable strange1338 estrangec1374 formal?1518 cold1557 squeamish1561 icy1567 buckrama1589 repulsive1598 starched1600 unaffable1603 stiff1608 withdrawing1611 reserved1612 aloof1639 cool1641 uncordial1643 inaffable1656 staunch1659 standfra1683 distant1710 starcha1716 distancing1749 pokerish1779 buckramed1793 angular1808 easeless1811 touch-me-not1817 starchy1824 standoffish1826 offish1827 poker-backed1830 standoff1837 stiffish1840 chilly1841 unapproachable1848 hedgehoggy1866 sticky1882 hard-to-get1899 stand-away1938 princesse lointaine1957 1837 T. Moore Diary 12 Oct. in Mem. (1856) VII. 203 Lady Lansdowne objected to the number of dirty houses that come up quite close to the Castle [of Windsor]. This Lord John said..he preferred..to the insulation of the great houses of the present day... [I] was all for the stand-off system of Lady Lansdowne; each rank in its own station. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. ii. 50 People generally like the other two much better. Catherine is so stand-off. 1922 A. Brown Old Crow xxxiv. 395 She had a direct address country folk liked. She was never ‘stand-off’, ‘stuck-up’. 2012 Brampton (Ont.) Guardian (Nexis) 12 May (Final ed.) (Whatson section) 1 Kendall's stand-off behavior comes as no surprise as the ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashian’ star is hounded daily by paparazzi, although she tries to be nice to the snappers who follow her around. 2. Rugby. Designating a halfback who forms a link between the scrum half and the three-quarters, or the position on the pitch of this player. Cf. fly n.² 1f, five-eighth n.Chiefly in standoff half n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > types of player > player or position full back1875 goal kick1875 No. eight1876 goalkicker1879 three-quarter back1880 handler1888 three-quarter1889 heeler1892 scrum half1894 lock forward1898 standoff1902 five-eighth1905 hooker1905 threes1905 flying half1906 loose head1907 standoff1908 fly-half1918 fly1921 inside half1921 outside half1921 scrum1921 inside centre1936 flank forward1937 out-half1949 prop1950 prop forward1951 number eight1952 flanker1953 tight head1959 back-rower1969 second rower1969 striker1973 packman1992 1902 Western Times (Exeter) 27 Oct. 4/3 Last year's captain..is playing as stand-off half-back for Devonport Albion Reserves. 1931 Times 21 Feb. 5/1 A new stand-off player. 2019 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 2 July 40 Having signed a long-term contract at the AJ Bell Stadium, Lolohea is keen to make the standoff position his own. 3. Of an object: that projects or is positioned a short distance away from a surface or another object; that serves to hold something in such a position. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > positioned at a distance from a surface standoff1952 1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 128/2 The well at the base of the shower-unit has a stand-off waste-pipe and the well can be used as a foot-bath. 1962 Air-cushion Vehicles 1 58/2 On top of the trusses are secured box-section full-length longerons, known as ‘stand-off booms’, which are braced together and complete the primary structure. 1977 Gramophone Oct. 743/1 The GC300..is finished with a..matt charcoal plastic base with four stand-off feet. 2003 Backwoods Home Mag. Jan. 62/1 Add a stand-off electric wire about four feet high, all around the fence. 4. Military. Designating a guided missile designed to be launched towards its target at long range; of or relating to such a missile. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [adjective] > of specific range intermediate-range1956 standoff1957 1957 Del Rio (Texas) News-Herald 25 Apr. 1/7 British laboratories are working on a rocket powered ‘stand off bomb’ to be carried by Britain's new V class bombers. 1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War xlvi. 463 A long-range glider bomb, the BV 246..was thus an early example of a ‘stand-off’ missile. 1982 Navy News Mar. 18/2 With its considerable ‘stand-off’ range, it is designed to destroy or disable enemy warships up to the largest-known size. 2015 C. Murdock et al. Project Atom (Center for Strategic & Internat. Stud.) App. D. 62 A suite of long-range standoff nuclear attack munitions. B. n. 1. a. Chiefly U.S. A contest or competition with no outright winner, or the result of this; a draw. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > draw or tie tie1680 patt1735 love1742 tie game1742 game and game1745 draw1823 standoff1842 split1967 1842 Spirit of Times 7 May 116/1 The bet would be a stand-off between the parties. 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 6 Sept. 7 Rural Pennsylvania is very near a stand-off between the Republicans and the Democrats. 1938 Sun (Baltimore) 17 May 14/5 Supreme Court decisions were about a standoff. There was a ruling against the General Electric in a patent suit... The High Court agreed to consider the validity of the TVA on an appeal by eighteen Southeastern utilities. 2015 Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) (Nexis) 6 May (Sports section) b2 West and rival Normal Community played to a 1-all standoff after 11 innings. b. Originally U.S. A deadlock between two equally matched opponents in a dispute or conflict; an impasse, a stalemate.See also Mexican standoff n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > a check or rebuff > complete check or impasse checkmatec1440 blank1542 nonplus1582 noncome1600 choke1674 dead lock1781 impasse1851 no go1870 standoff1876 gridlock1981 1876 Sunday Mercury (N.Y.) 19 Mar. 2/5 ‘Go–!’ said he sternly then. ‘We will call it a stand-off, a Mexican stand-off, you lose your money, but you save your life!’ 1958 Spectator 31 Oct. 588/2 On the Fuchs-Hillary standoff whether to continue to Scott Base or not..Sir Vivian tactfully writes: ‘Unfortunately this exchange became known publicly.’ 1981 ‘E. V. Cunningham’ Case of Sliding Pool (1982) xii. 145 We can't do anything, neither can he. It's a standoff. 2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 19 Aug. i. 10/2 France's foreign minister recently said he believed it was still possible to resolve the standoff through diplomacy. †2. Distance or coolness of manner; unfriendliness, aloofness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability strangenessc1386 unhomelinessc1440 fremdnessa1500 coldness1557 coolnessa1586 self-guarda1586 diskindness1596 formality1599 reservedness1606 inaffability1611 restrainta1616 unconess1637 chillness1639 froideur1645 distance1660 starchedness1670 buckram1682 starchness?1693 starch1694 reserve1711 stiffness1717 unapproachableness1727 retirement1803 angularity1824 standoffishness1826 distancy1836 chill1837 starchiness1844 unapproachability1846 hedgehogginess1858 standoff1865 offishness1867 aloofness1878 pokerishness1880 untouchableness1909 untouchability1919 stuffiness1926 1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. xxiv. 183 There's a stand-off about some women—what the men call a ‘nollimy tangere’. 1885 D. D. Porter Incidents Civil War xiv. 143 There was a kind of ‘stand-off’ between the army and the navy when acting together, which prevented them from working in harmony. 1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights vi. 164 I don't take any high-an-mighty stand-off from a lunkhead that's stole my melons. 3. †a. U.S. slang. An extension of credit; a postponement of payment. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1883 B. Harte In Carquinez Woods ii. 55 I reckon you'd better make it [sc. a bet] a stand-off for twenty-four hours, and I'll find out and let you know. 1891 M. E. Ryan Told in Hills iv. viii. 350 I got a stand-off on the hostilities—till your return. 1906 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Aug. 166/2 I've negotiated a stand-off at a delicatessen hut down-town. b. A rest; a temporary cessation of activity. Cf. to stand off 2d at stand v. Phrasal verbs 1. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > a period of leisurec1449 non-terminus1573 Sabbatism1582 non-term1607 recess1620 playtime1631 by-hour1639 vacancy1654 relache1780 lounge1806 spellc1845 pink-eye1901 seventh-inning stretch1915 standoff1918 timeout1931 the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation pause1440 trip1584 interpause1595 wem1599 stand1602 vacation1617 interspiration1623 intercisiona1631 interregnum1659 lapse1838 shutdown1857 break1878 slip1898 seventh-inning stretch1915 standoff1918 1918 Jrnl. Royal Naval Med. Service 4 181 He should have four months ‘stand off’. 1930 C. R. Sansom Fights & Flights 100 He told me..to give my cars a stand-off for the rest of the day. †4. U.S. Something which acts as a counterbalance. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > a counterbalance counterpoise1594 opposition1594 counterbalance1640 offset1769 set-off1774 equipoise1780 makeweight1787 equilibrant1883 standoff1888 1888 Microcosm (N.Y.) Dec. 7/1 We are willing to allow this judicial estimate..to count as a stand-off against all the subsidized commendations. 1890 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 672/1 When therefore the lawyer hears the curses..of his impatient clients, the preferences of other clients..make a complete stand-off; and he feels that the law's delay is both bad and good. 5. Rugby. Short for standoff half n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > types of player > player or position full back1875 goal kick1875 No. eight1876 goalkicker1879 three-quarter back1880 handler1888 three-quarter1889 heeler1892 scrum half1894 lock forward1898 standoff1902 five-eighth1905 hooker1905 threes1905 flying half1906 loose head1907 standoff1908 fly-half1918 fly1921 inside half1921 outside half1921 scrum1921 inside centre1936 flank forward1937 out-half1949 prop1950 prop forward1951 number eight1952 flanker1953 tight head1959 back-rower1969 second rower1969 striker1973 packman1992 1908 Observer 9 Feb. 11/1 When he found his standoff something of a failure he masked his play and upset every calculation of the Irishmen. And Portus, the standoff, was a failure. 1980 Sunday Times 21 Sept. 29 Even now, 100 days later, it's still something of a whirl for the Lions stand-off. 2004 Rugby World Feb. 88/2 At stand-off you get the ball in your hands so much more than I did on the wing, and that's what every player wants. 6. A component or device serving to hold an object clear of a surface or another object. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > putting or keeping at a distance > thing holding an object distant from a surface standoff1955 1955 Record-Argus (Greenville, Pa.) 10 Feb. 14/1 (advt.) TV equipment at a saving... Stand off... .15. 1974 Physics Bull. Dec. 592/2 Two quartz blocks are positioned adjacent to the device, and a preformed gold tape is bonded across the quartz standoffs and the back contact of the diode. 2005 Backwoods Home July 88/1 The pictured hearth..was built against cement board fastened on standoffs. Compounds standoff half n. Rugby a halfback who forms a link between the scrum half and the three-quarters; the position on the pitch of this player; = fly-half n. ΚΠ 1905 Daily Mail 7 Feb. 6/5 Moir..passed inwards to Summers for the stand-off half to race clean through. 1959 Times 6 July 4/3 Thomas at stand-off half handicapped himself and the three-quarters still further by standing to take his passes. 2007 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 Apr. 1 As one of Super League's top stand off halves he could expect to command a salary in the region of £120,000 a year. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < adj.n.1837
随便看	to take a stress to take a strong hold to take a subscription to take a swing at to take a swipe at to take a thing at face value to take a thing in at ill to take a thing in ill to take a thing in to ill to take a thing personally to take a thing seriously to take a thing where one can find it to take a thing where one can get it to take a thing wherever one can find it to take a thing wherever one can get it to take a thing with one to take a toss to take a toy to take a toy at to take a toy to to take a tree to stall to take a tumble to take a tumble to oneself to take a turn for the to take a turn for the better