| 单词 | to break one's head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto break one's head b. To crack or rupture (the skin); to graze, bruise, wound, as in phrase to break one's head. to break Priscian's head: to violate the rules of grammar. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound woundc760 breakc1175 hurt1297 sorea1400 bewound?1567 vuln1583 vulnerate1599 gugg1633 sauciate1645 plunk1888 traumatize1903 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 Ȝef he hefde on his moder ibroken hire meidenhad. c1305 Jud. Iscariot 50 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 108 Children..he wolde smyte, And breke here armes and here heued. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) x. 256 Atte the fallyng that he made, he brake all his browes. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 40 Euen the day before shee brake her brow. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. i. 77 Backe slaue, or I will breake thy pate a-crosse. View more context for this quotation 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 161. ¶3 A Ring of Cudgel-Players..breaking one another's Heads. 1785 R. Cumberland Observer No. 22. §6 Observe how this..orator breaks poor Priscian's head for the good of his country. 1883 Daily Tel. 10 July 5/4 Does Shakespeare never break Priscian's head? < as lemmas |
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