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单词 to be run off one's feet
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to be run off one's feet
(a) to run (a person) off his (also her) feet (or legs): to overwork or harass (a person) to the point of exhaustion (originally spec. through running); = to rush (a person) off his (also her) feet (or legs) at rush v.2 Phrases 5. Frequently (now usually) in passive, as to be run off one's feet.Earliest in reflexive use; cf. sense 10a.
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1648 T. Winyard Midsummer-moone 3 He runs himselfe off his legs the first daies journey.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 25 Nov. (1979) IX. 375 He seems to hope that these people..will run themselfs off of their legs.
1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 89 A Bankrupt... He goes on's last legs. He is run off his legs.
1713 Causes Decay Presbytery Scotl. 14 It [sc. the form of service of the Church of England] will..over-run your Nation in a short time, and the Episcopal Party..will run you off your Feet.
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ at Run To run one off his legs, Aliquem cursu penitus fatigare.
1788 G. Colman Ways & Means i. 18 I shall be run off my feet, I find, in a fortnight.
1803 Pract. Rules Managem. Negro Slaves 279 Requiring all the address of art, to..prevent them [sc. purgings] from running the negro off his legs.
1857 C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace II. xv. 235 Charlotte was what Martha expressively called ‘fairly run off her feet’.
1937 T. O. Beachcroft You must break out Sometimes (1970) 104 Are you offering to run young Rex off his legs?
1949 N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. x. 107 You'd never believe that woman was nearly eighty, she could run us all off our feet.
1970 W. J. Burley To kill Cat i. 7 ‘I expect you've got enough to do at this time of year.’ ‘Run off our feet, sir.’
2008 C. Ní Aonghusa Civil & Strange vii. 120 The last few days have been dreadful. We were run off our feet looking after her.
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