| 单词 | to bring up with a round turn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bring up with a round turn colloquial. figurative. to bring up with a round turn and variants: to check or stop suddenly. Cf. sense 3. ΚΠ 1788 Whitehall Evening-post 2–4 Sept. To make use of a sea phrase..‘he was brought up with a round turn’; for it was impossible for him to go on. 1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 186/2 I was brought up with a round turn by seeing a light shining through the hazy bull's-eye in the deck where I stood. 1879 All Year Round 19 Apr. 430/2 I..pulled myself up with a round turn. ‘Nell, you foolish child,’ I thought. 1899 W. Churchill Richard Carvel xii. 123 Miss Manners brought him up with a round turn and a half hitch by relating one of your exploits. a1910 in Amer. Speech (1979) 54 99 Round turn,..‘fetched up with a round turn’. Suddenly. 1920 J. Galsworthy In Chancery ii. vi. 175 The end came swiftly on the 20th of January with a telegram... It brought him up with a round turn. 1997 F. Mulville Rescue & Recovery vi. 83 Perhaps it was right,..that I should be brought up with a round turn. < as lemmas |
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