单词 | to be well rid of |
释义 | > as lemmasto be well rid of b. to be well rid of: (a) to be in a better state for having removed (a troublesome or unwanted person); (b) to be completely freed or relieved from (a troublesome or unwanted thing or person) (now rare). ΚΠ ?1527 tr. Copy of Lett. wherin Kyng Henry VIII made Answere vnto M. Luther sig. B.vi One or two Freres apostataes.., of whome we reken our Realme so well rydde, that if there were any mo suche here..we wolde ye had them to. 1573 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (rev. ed.) sig. D.i By my troth (quoth this Constable) I was glad when I was well ryd of them. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 11 b That the Realme (being too full of people) is very well ridde of them. 1631 J. Shirley Schoole of Complement v. i. 68 Woo'd I were well rid of you. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 20 Those who now possesse the imployment..wish themselves well ridd of it. 1722 E. Ward Wand'ring Spy: Pt. II 52 The Driver glad to find his Horses Well rid of four such heavy Arses. 1730 D. Turner Force Mother's Imagination upon Fœtus 165 Surely, replied one of them, the World is well rid of him, for he was a Man of a very bad and vicious Life. 1815 Brit. Rev. Aug. 26 The Sansculotte philosophers..are well rid of all other symptoms of humanity. 1897 S. Baring-Gould Bladys xii. 143 She is grumpish and the world is well rid of such baggage. 1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 720/2 An Englishman..soon wishes himself well rid of the..Latin-American. 1953 G. Heyer Cotillion xv. 233 If he is such a coxcomb as that, you would be very well rid of him! 1997 D. Quinn My Ishmael (1999) 193 They're defectives, sociopaths, and misfits, and we're well rid of them. < as lemmas |
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