| 单词 | to be in someone's skin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be in (also get into) someone's skin a. In miscellaneous uses concerning a person's identity, character, or behaviour, esp. to be in (also get into) someone's skin. Cf. to get under a person's skin at Phrases 12b. ΚΠ 1372 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 88 I wolde ben clad in cristis skyn, Þat ran so longe on blode. 1573 C. Hollyband French Schoole-maister in M. St. C. Byrne Elizabethan Home (1949) 23 I would not be in thy skinne for twentie crownes of golde. ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome ii. ii. 252 We must discerne the skinne from the shirt. 1665 R. South Serm. preached before Court 38 If Mens Religion lies no deeper then their skin. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 46 Why, where should she be? You must needs know; she's in her Skin. 1790 F. Burney Diary Feb. (1842) V. 93 I shall pity those men when the book comes out!—I would not be in their skins! 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To be in another's skin,’ to be in his place or situation. a1850 D. G. Rossetti Dante & Circle (1874) i. 221 Him who sticks so in his skin. a1850 D. G. Rossetti Dante & Circle (1874) i. 224 Messer Angiolieri's slipped his skin. 1886 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 115 The one [sc. actor] gets into the skin of one character: the other only puts on the clothes of twelve. 1916 J. R. Towse Sixty Years of Theater xxiii. 361 In the church scene, Miss Rehan won her audience by a fine display of honest womanly indignation, but she never really ‘got into the skin’ of Beatrice. 1963 Listener 28 Mar. 564/2 Those who enjoy the fun of getting inside someone else's skin. 2003 Time 19 May 31/2 The Democrats..will need a candidate who is easy in his skin, who sounds different from other politicians. < as lemmas |
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