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单词 to bite one's ear or one by the ear
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to bite one's ear or one by the ear
16. Phrases. †to bite upon the bridle: to champ the bit like a restless horse, to wait impatiently; to bite the dust, bite ground, bite sand, etc.: to fall in death, to die; also, to fall to the ground, to fall wounded; to be abased; also fig.; to bite the lip, or (obs.) upon the lips: to press the lip between the teeth, in order to restrain the expression of anger or mirth; †to bite one's tongue: to hold it between the teeth so as to repress speech (cf. ‘to hold one's tongue’); †to bite the thumb at: ‘to threaten or defie by putting the thumbe naile into the mouth, and with a ierke (from the upper teeth) make it to knack,’ (Cotgrave at Nique); to give the ‘fico,’ to insult; †to bite the teeth: to gnash or grind them; to bite one's ear or one by the ear, (a) i.e. as a sign of fondness, to caress fondly; (b) (slang), to borrow money from (someone); cf. 15b and bite n. 1i; to bite one's head (or nose) off: to snap one's head off (see snap v. 7b); to bite the hand that feeds one: to injure a benefactor; to act ungratefully; to bite off more than one can chew (orig. U.S.): to undertake too much, to be too ambitious; to bite (on) the bullet: to behave courageously; to avoid showing fear or distress.
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1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 155 Philip bote on his lippe.
1362 Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 84 His body was to-bolle for wratthe þat he bote his lippes.
1477 Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 69 He frowned..& bote on his lippe.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kij v, These courters..Smellynge those dysshes they byte upon the brydyll.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lament. ii. 16 Thine enemies..bytinge their teth sayenge: let vs deuoure.
1597 Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. i. 47 1 I bite my thumbe. 2 Moun: I but i'st at vs? View more context for this quotation
1597 Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 72 Ile bite thee by the eare for that iest. View more context for this quotation
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 Shee was a shrewish snappish bawd, that wold bite off a mans nose with an answere.
1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 342 Bite upon the bridle, that..he may be wiser afterward.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mordre l'oreille à, as much as flatter ou caresser mignonnement, wherein the biting of th' eare is, with some, an vsuall Action.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E4, Slaue, I could bite thine eare. View more context for this quotation
a1616 Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. i. 230 So Yorke must sit, and fret, and bite his tongue. View more context for this quotation
1623 Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 114 He bites his lip, and starts, Stops on a sodaine. View more context for this quotation
1697 Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 554 So many Valiant Heros bite the Ground.
1716 Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 51 First Odius falls, and bites the bloody Sand.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. iii. ii. 188 We made two of them bite the dust, and the others betake themselves to flight.
1768 T. Gray Fatal Sisters in Poems 83 Soon a King shall bite the ground.
1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 6 This..proposition..that we set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us; that with..insanity we oppose the measures..whose sole object is our own peace and prosperity.
1813 Byron Giaour 16 The foremost Tartar bites the ground!
1820 Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 60 And many times they bit their lips alone.
1855 Golden Era 18 Mar. 1/5 We..made one bite the dust every crack.
1856 C. J. Andersson Lake Ngami 94 In the course of half an hour, he had twice bitten the dust.
1857 Trollope Barchester Towers III. xiii. 229 That ecclesiastical knight before whose lance Mr. Slope was to fall and bite the dust.
1857 Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xv. 456 You make one bite your head off, when one wants to be soothing beyond everything.
1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. iii. iv. 241 He will never bite the hand that feeds him now.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 55 May his fellow warriors..Fall round him to the earth and bite the dust.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds ii. 42 You've bit off more'n you can chaw.
1879 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 502/1 He used to want to bite my ear (borrow) too often.
1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 5 Mar. 3/1 If he ain't careful, he'll bite the dust [get broke and go begging].
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xi. 219 Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
1898 H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story 115 I'll tell you one thing,..you've bit off more'n you can chew this time.
1905 Hartford Courant 10 Feb. 8 Young Lawyer Comerford..bit off more than he could chew... He could not make good when called on for proof.
1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion 195 The mistake we describe metaphorically as ‘biting off more than they can chew’.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves ii. 27 Brace up and bite the bullet. I'm afraid I've bad news for you.
1925 P. G. Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves ii. 36 His principal source of income..was derived from biting the ear of a rich uncle.
1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) I. v. 282 Thus ungrateful is immature youth! It takes all that is offered, and bites the hand that feeds it.
1940 P. G. Wodehouse Eggs, Beans & Crumpets 229, I was not dreaming of biting your ear... What I require is something far beyond your power to supply. Five pounds at least.
1943 S. V. Benét Western Star 70 The treacherous redskins always bite the dust.
1946 R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby 126 He'd bite my head off if I asked him to come on the committee.
1955 Times 11 May 14/6 ‘Better men than Mr. Strachey have bit the dust in Dundee,’ was how the Tory hopes were summed up by one Conservative.
1962 J. L. Austin's Sense & Sensibilia i. 1 They [sc. doctrines] all bite off more than they can chew.
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