| 单词 | take down a two |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two) colloquial. to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)and variants: to lower (a person) in status or esteem; to humble or humiliate (a person), esp. one regarded as having an inflated opinion of himself or herself. Similarly to take (a person) (down) a buttonhole lower . Cf. to take (a person) down a peg (or two). Now rare (chiefly U.S. in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Huntington Libr. copy) sig. C4 The haire shirt will chase whordome out of their boanes, and the hard lodging on the boards take their flesh downe a button hole lower. 1593 G. Peele Famous Chron. King Edward the First sig. F2v O Frier you grow chollericke, wel yole Haue no man to Court your mislers but your selfe, On my word ile take you downe a botton hole. a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) ii. i. 18 It seems we have got the start of you, for being but a servant you are taken a button-hole lower. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iv. 47 Better mind yerselves, or I'll take ye down a button-hole lower. 1886 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 30 Apr. 5/4 A few of the rank and file (excuse the ordinary expression) have been taken down a button-hole... Some of them used to wear their noses high. 1930 Z. N. Hurston De Turkey & de Law (typescript, Libr. of Congr.) 12 Ah'll stop long enough to take you down a button-hole lower. (He..finds a seat and draws it up to the card table). 1956 Washington Post 9 May 14/4 If and when any group..tends to get too big for its britches, we should not hesitate to take it down a buttonhole or two. to take (a person) down a peg (or two) a. The interval between two successive positions, such as could be marked by pegs; a step, a degree. Esp. in to take (a person) down a peg (or two) and variants: to lower (a person) in his or her own, or the general, estimation; to lower a person's view of his or her own status or ability; to humble, chasten, snub. Also to take (a person) a peg lower. Similarly occasionally to come down a peg. [Perhaps compare figurative use in sense 2a. Several other origins have been suggested (such as a connection with pins marking a level in a cup and intended to regulate drinking habits, or with the tying of naval flag ropes to pegs (a higher peg hence denoting higher status)), but none is completely convincing.] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > be humble [verb (intransitive)] > become humble to come downa1382 meeka1400 meekena1500 let fall one's crest1531 to come (also get) off one's perch1568 to come down a peg1589 lower1837 to come off the roof1883 to climb down1887 deflate1912 to come, etc., off one's high horse1920 the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > become degraded or debased [verb (intransitive)] to come down a peg1589 derogatea1616 lower1837 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet To Father & two Sonnes. sig. A2 Now haue at you all my gaffers of the rayling religion, tis I that must take you a peg lower. 1625 J. Mead Let. 22 Oct. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 58 A-talking of the brave times that would be shortly..when..the Bishop of Chester, that bore himself so high, should be hoisted a peg higher to his little ease. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 105 We still have worsted all your holy Tricks,..And took your Grandees down a peg. 1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 24 Feb. (1885) I. 336 You'll bring me down a peg lower in my Conceit. 1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper II. 247 An opportunity for letting him down a peg or two. 1830 J. Neal Authorship v. 45 Little as it [sc. the window] is, it was never made to open, I see; I can't move it a peg—neither up nor down, nor sideways. 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 17 633/2 Some folks who are so high will have to come down a peg. 1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella II. iii. iv. 324 I must take that proud girl down a peg. 1955 V. Nabokov Lolita II. iii. 46 I could never make her read any other book than the so-called comic books or stories in magazines for American females. Any literature a peg higher smacked to her of school. 1989 Just Seventeen 20 Dec. 13/2 He thought he was really fab though, so I decided to pull him down a peg or two. 2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names v. 154 A child of privilege, a knowall Cambridge student, needs to be brought down a peg or two. < as lemmas |
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