单词 | to betake to one's heels |
释义 | > as lemmasto betake (oneself) to one's heels (b) to take to one's heels: to run away, to flee. Formerly also †to take oneself to one's heels, †to betake (oneself) to one's heels. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee fleec825 afleeeOE atrina1000 atfleec1000 to run awayOE to turn to or into flighta1225 to turn the ridgec1225 atrenc1275 atshakec1275 to give backa1300 flemec1300 startc1330 to take (on oneself) the flighta1500 to take the back upon oneselfa1500 fly1523 to take (also betake) (oneself) to one's legs1530 to flee one's way1535 to take to one's heels1548 flought?1567 fuge1573 to turn taila1586 to run off1628 to take flighta1639 refugea1641 to run for it1642 to take leg1740 to give (also take) leg-bail1751 bail1775 sherry1788 to pull foot1792 fugitate1830 to tail off (out)1830 to take to flight1840 to break (strike, etc.) for (the) tall timber1845 guy1879 to give leg (or legs)1883 rabbit1887 to do a guy1889 high-tail1908 to have it on one's toes1958 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xlix So deceauyng his kepers [he] toke him to his heeles. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H4 They..betake them to their heeles as to their best refuge. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. 208 Some of those that were furthest off, being scared out of their couches, not knowing what violence or from whence it was, tooke to their heels and fled. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. i. iv. 7 The Tartars..as soon as they..find the Poles advancing, betake themselves to their heels. 1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XIII. xvi. i. 511 The greater part took themselves to their heels, and fled into the high mountains of Judea. 1764 Oxf. Sausage 116 At length the suspicion fell thick on poor Tray, Till he took to his heels and with speed ran away. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. viii. 240 The rabble incontinently took to their heels. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 93 The beholders would have..taken to their heels and run for their lives. 1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 129 I laid about me with the folded Billboard to such effect that the blackguards took to their heels, howling with pain. 1999 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 18 Oct. 4/4 When the thugs discovered that the vehicle was carrying a dead body, they abandoned it and took to their heels. < as lemmas |
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