| 单词 | the blazes! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe blazes! b. slang. blazes: plural referring to the flames of hell, used in several forcible expressions, as blue blazes, the blazes!, like blazes: furiously, impetuously. to (the) blazes: to perdition, ‘to the deuce’; used in imprecations. ΘΚΠ 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 mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > referring to the devil or hell devilc1300 fire and brimstone1608 diablea1616 diantre1751 the blazes!1818 blue blazes1818 hell's bells1847 to (the) blazes1853 puck1864 hell's teeth1909 1818 ‘A. Burton’ Adventures Johnny Newcome 41 They thought he must be mad as blazes. 1818 M. L. Weems Drunkard's Looking Glass (ed. 6) 49 Ye steep down gulphs of liquid fire! Ye blue blazes of damnation! 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers liv. 587 How the blazes you can stand the head-work you do, is a mystery to me. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xiii. 197 What the blazes is in the wind now! 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. iii. 174 She sets her face against gals working in mills like blazes. 1853 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun in Wks. (1862) III. 84 The horse..went like blazes. 1853 C. Dickens Down with Tide in Househ. Words 5 Feb. 483/2 Letting the teeth go (to Blazes, he observed indefinitely). 1858 S. A. Hammett Piney Woods Tavern 37 And the two Jacobs swore like blue blazes agin him. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. x. 160 What the Blue Blazes is he? 1924 G. H. L. Mallory Let. 7 May in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 (1925) 231 The moral of A party had gone to blazes. 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xiii. §1. 119 When you have found out what you want to do—then go at it like blazes. 1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident ix. 121 What the blue blazes is all this? < as lemmas |
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