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单词 to cut one's own throat
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to cut one's own throat
a. to cut the throat of: to ruin; to bring about the defeat or downfall of; to put an end to. Similarly to cut one's own throat: to be the means of one's own defeat or downfall; to act in a way which will ultimately harm one's own interests. Also to cut one another's throats: to try to bring about one another's downfall; to work against one another.In later use esp. with reference to ruthless competition in business, commerce, etc. Cf. cut-throat n. Compounds.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > destroy oneself
to cut one's own throat1565
auto-destruct1963
self-destruct1968
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence
dilghec897
defacec1386
annul1395
anientec1400
refer?c1400
extinct1484
annihil1490
delete1495
out-terma1500
perspoil1523
extaintc1540
extinguish1555
blot1561
wipe1564
to cut the throat of1565
annihilate1567
dissipatea1575
annihilate1586
nullify1609
nullize1615
expunge1628
nothing1637
null1647
extramund1654
be-nothing1674
erase1728
obliterate1798
simoom1821
to tear to shreds1837
snuff1852
mop1859
to take out1900
napoo1915
naught1958
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
undoc950
shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
stathea1200
tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
wastec1325
stanch1338
corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
dissolvec1374
supplanta1382
to-shend1382
aneantizec1384
avoidc1384
to put outa1398
beshenda1400
swelta1400
amortizec1405
distract1413
consumec1425
shelfc1425
abroge1427
downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
society > society and the community > dissent > be in dissension or at variance [verb (intransitive)] > be greatly or desperately at variance
to cut one another's throats1685
1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie 206 His contradiction shall serue vs, as a most stronge weapon to ouerthrow his doctrine layde in against vs: for thus he him self shal cut [h] is owne throte, condemne and confute his owne sayengs.
1579 J. Harmar tr. J. Calvin Serm. X. Commandementes x. f. 74v Whereas rich men thinke that they haue made great gaine by the losse of an other, let vs knowe that they haue cutte the throte of poore men.
1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 111 That..cuts the throat of your solution.
1685 Duke of Buckingham Short Disc. Reasonableness Men's Relig. 21 Perpetually quarrelling amongst themselves, and cutting one another's Throats.
a1722 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 7 This interlocutor..knocked his cause..in the head, and cutted its throat.
1787 J. Wesley Let. 21 Apr. (1931) VII. 380 This is very likely to be done by his still preaching too loud or too long, which is a sure way of cutting his own throat.
1824 L. Stanhope Greece 15 Generals..who cut their own throats by word of command.
1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 197 Here is a low political economy plotting to cut the throat of foreign competition.
1909 Eton College Chron. 18 Mar. 450/2 He has cut his own throat by letting fanaticism get the better of him.
1960 Times 15 Mar. 4/4 The larger farming members coming into egg production were cutting the throats of the small producers.
2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Apr. c10 Brutal competition from competitors cutting one another's throats on business fares.
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