| 单词 | to bother life out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bother (a person's) life out a. to bother the life out of: to harass or annoy continuously or beyond endurance. Similarly to bother (a person's) life out (now archaic and rare).Cf. life n. Phrases 11b. ΚΠ 1835 Dublin Univ. Mag. Feb. 160/1 Her temper would bother the life out of a Turk. 1899 O. Wilde Importance of being Earnest (1966) ii. 13 I can't dine at the Savoy. I owe them about £700. They are always getting judgments and things against me. They bother my life out. 1903 S. Crane & R. Barr O'Ruddy 351 The money-lenders of London simply bothered the life out of me trying to shovel gold on me. 1937 G. Heyer They found him Dead iv. 83 He woffled a whole lot to me about people bothering his life out. 2007 H. Bernstein Invisible Wall 54 Been in and out, in and out, nearly every day, bothering the life out of me, tapping on that glass counter with his penny. < as lemmas |
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