英语词汇“to cut the grass under a person's feet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P3. to cut the grass (from) under a person's feet: to thwart or foil a person, esp. in an unexpected or underhand manner; to undermine a person. Cf. to pull the rug from under at pull v. Phrases 14.Perhaps now chiefly in translated texts. [After French couper l'herbe sous le pied de quelq'un , and similar expressions (as e.g. in the passage translated in quot. 1572).]

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (intransitive)] > thwart

to cut the grass (from) under a person's feet1572

spoil sport1869

1572 G. Fenton tr. E. Pasquier Monophylo i. f. 51 The same Astolphe & Ioconde chose in the ende one Ladie to content them both, and yet a little quidam..did cutte the grasse from vnder their feete [Fr. leur faucha l'herbe sous les pieds].

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd (ed. 2) 155 This is a prety way of cokesing indeed, while you are all this while cutting the grass under his feet, and animating the people against the exercise of his Ecclesiastical Supremacy.

1749 W. Whiston Memoirs I. 114 Upon my first proving them to be genuine, he pretended to me, that he would cut the grass from under my feet, as his expression was, and prove them to be spurious.

1811 W. Cobbett Parl. Hist. Eng. VIII. 1129 It would be cutting the grass under our own feet, and be of great detriment to Robinson.

1913 A. M. Ludovici tr. V. Van Gogh Lett. of Post-Impressionist 95 But the matter is pressing, otherwise other dealers will cut the grass from under your feet.

2013 M. Gershovich in B. Maddy-Weitzman & D. Zisenwine Contemp. Morocco ii. vii. 102 Communication Minister Benabdallah commented that the government intended to ‘cut the grass under the feet of Islamists’.

单词	to cut the grass under a person's feet
释义	> as lemmas to cut the grass (from) under a person's feet P3. to cut the grass (from) under a person's feet: to thwart or foil a person, esp. in an unexpected or underhand manner; to undermine a person. Cf. to pull the rug from under at pull v. Phrases 14.Perhaps now chiefly in translated texts. [After French couper l'herbe sous le pied de quelq'un , and similar expressions (as e.g. in the passage translated in quot. 1572).] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (intransitive)] > thwart to cut the grass (from) under a person's feet1572 spoil sport1869 1572 G. Fenton tr. E. Pasquier Monophylo i. f. 51 The same Astolphe & Ioconde chose in the ende one Ladie to content them both, and yet a little quidam..did cutte the grasse from vnder their feete [Fr. leur faucha l'herbe sous les pieds]. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd (ed. 2) 155 This is a prety way of cokesing indeed, while you are all this while cutting the grass under his feet, and animating the people against the exercise of his Ecclesiastical Supremacy. 1749 W. Whiston Memoirs I. 114 Upon my first proving them to be genuine, he pretended to me, that he would cut the grass from under my feet, as his expression was, and prove them to be spurious. 1811 W. Cobbett Parl. Hist. Eng. VIII. 1129 It would be cutting the grass under our own feet, and be of great detriment to Robinson. 1913 A. M. Ludovici tr. V. Van Gogh Lett. of Post-Impressionist 95 But the matter is pressing, otherwise other dealers will cut the grass from under your feet. 2013 M. Gershovich in B. Maddy-Weitzman & D. Zisenwine Contemp. Morocco ii. vii. 102 Communication Minister Benabdallah commented that the government intended to ‘cut the grass under the feet of Islamists’. extracted from grassn.¹ < as lemmas
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