| 单词 | to break the neck of a journey, a piece of business |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto break the neck of a journey, a piece of business b. to break on the wheel: to bind a criminal to a wheel, or similar frame, and break his limbs, or beat him to death; so †to break on the torture: to put to the torture, dislocate on the rack, etc. to break one's back or neck: to dislocate the bones of the back or neck; also figurative to overpower, render nugatory, crush. to break the neck of a journey, a piece of business, etc.: to get through the most serious part of it. to break the back of a ship: to break the keel and keelson, dislocate the framework of the centre, so that the two ends tend to fall apart. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > have disorder of joints [verb (intransitive)] > dislocate to break one's back or necka1400 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery, superiority, or advantage [verb (intransitive)] > defeat completely to break one's back or neck1579 to be too many for1692 to do for ——1740 to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835 to fix (another's) flint1836 to cut the ground from under one (or one's feet)1855 society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > on the rack spread?c1225 fordrawc1380 enginec1405 rack?a1439 stentc1480 streekc1480 draw1481 brake1530 excarnificate1570 excruciate1570 stretch1585 to break on the torture1598 distend1599 tenter1615 tousea1616 tympanize1647 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] > exhaust one's strength or energy to break one's back or necka1616 to melt one's grease1645 break1726 to run out of steam1836 to overdo it1853 to peg out1887 society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > on wheel stentc1480 wheel1611 to break on the wheela1640 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22202 Ouer hogh to lepe his hals to brek. c1400 Gamelyn 712 I ne hadde broke his nekke, tho I his rigge brak. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin vii. 378 To breake the necke of the wicked purposes & plots of the French. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. x. 42 Her good-man..kindly bad her breake her necke, olde Iade. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xi. vii. 148 Being broken on the torture, he confessed nothing. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. i. 26 I had rather cracke my sinewes, breake my backe, Then you should such dishonor vndergoe. View more context for this quotation a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman v. iv. 152 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) Rack him first, and after break him Upon the wheel. 1690 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 147 A Dutch man of war..run upon the sands and broke her back. 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 304 Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel? 1864 Times 24 Dec. The..delusion that a single campaign would ‘break the neck of the rebellion’. 1878 J. Morley Diderot I. 201 A country where youths were broken on the wheel for levity in face of an ecclesiastical procession. < as lemmas |
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