单词 | to catch cold |
释义 | > as lemmasto catch cold Phrases P1. to catch a cold (also to catch cold). a. To become subject to disease attributed to coldness within the body or exposure to low temperatures; to become infected with a cold.Until the later 20th century, to catch cold was much more usual, but now to catch a cold predominates. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > have disorder of respiratory organ [verb (intransitive)] > catch cold to catch a coldc1460 to get, have, or take a cold1537 to catch one's death of cold1739 to catch one's death1861 c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 631 Aftir his hete he cauȝte a cold, þurh þe nyȝtis eyr. 1539 R. Morison tr. Frontinus Strategemes & Policies Warre i. xii. sig. Diiiv What, arte thou amased to here that oone of so many thousandes hath caught colde? 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iii. ii, in Wks. I. 554 One that has catch'd a cold, sir, and can scarce bee heard sixe inches off. View more context for this quotation 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick p. xxiii Obstructed Perspiration (vulgarly called catching Cold) is one great Source of Diseases. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. iii. iii. 110 You certainly havecaught cold: you sneezed three times together. 1931 M. A. Dormie Snobs 46 I caught a filthy cold, which lasted three solid days. 1992 Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada Spring 8/1 What happens if a singer catches cold? 2004 F. Lawrence Not on Label p. xi Where I had been living, suffering from V and D..(vomiting and diarrhoea) was as common as catching a cold. b. slang. To get into trouble or encounter difficulties, usually as a result of behaving impetuously; (now esp.) to suffer a loss after taking a financial risk. ΚΠ a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) ii. 1266 We must helpe yowre state, msters, to uphold, Or elles owre profyttes wyll cache a wynter colde. 1775 Proc. Old Bailey 18 Feb. 146/1 She snatched the watch out of my pocket, I told her if she did not give it me again she would catch cold, meaning she would repent of it. 1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) You will catch cold at that; a vulgar threat or advice to desist from an attempt. 1823 J. Badcock Slang 202 ‘Catch cold (to) at a thing’—to have the worst of betting, of a bargain, or contest—ruination sometimes. 1948 G. Heyer Foundling xii. 190 Putting away a Dook is coming it too strong... Mark my words, Sam, you'll catch cold at this! 1977 Observer 4 Sept. 14/7 (heading) Do not catch a cold with gold. 2005 C. Newbrook Ducks in Row 54 I want every box ticked, mind you—we don't want to catch a cold on this one. P2. degree of cold n. (originally) †the extent to which a person shows coldness, as one of the characteristics of phlegm (the cardinal humour: phlegm n. 1a) (obsolete); (in later use) the extent to which anything is cold; spec. the number of degrees below the freezing point of water (0°C, 32°F; cf. —— degrees of (also below) frost at frost n. Phrases 5); frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion > humours > quality arising from adustion?a1425 humoura1500 degree of cold1594 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xv. 275 If with a sharp wit, she be froward, curst, & wayward, she is in the first degree of cold and moist. 1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis ii. 105 That you may know the Degree of Cold, besides that which is Elemental; understand it thus: Whatsoever Congeals humours, possesseth the fourth Degree. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 38 That mark I fix at a convenient place of the stem, to make it capable of exhibiting very many degrees of cold, below that which is requisite to freeze water. 1676 M.D. tr. F. Bacon Novum Organum 26 Our feeling cannot be sensible of any degree of heat in inanimate substances, but they differ in their degrees of cold, for Wood is not so cold as Metals. 1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 190 In the Column of the Thermometer, — denotes degrees of Cold below the freezing Point. 1796 R. Walker Acct. Remarkable Disc. Artific. Cold p. vii Blowing on the bulb of a thermometer to hasten the evaporation [of vitriolic æther], produces about thirty degrees of cold; rectified wine, thus treated, about twelve. 1839 Galignani's New Paris Guide 42 The mean degree of cold is 7° below zero. 1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 52/1 I've always heard that ten degrees of cold below zero destroyed the fruit germs. 1909 S. Hedin Trans-Himalaya I. xiii. 162 It blows and snows, with 18 degrees of cold. 1937 Idaho: Guide in Word & Picture (Federal Writers' Project) 227 It is not a large pool, but a swimmer can stroke from almost cold water into hot water and through various degrees of cold and warmth between the two extremes. 1999 J. L. Chapman & M. J. Reiss Ecology (ed. 2) ix. 105/2 Different organisms can withstand different degrees of cold: some plants can tolerate temperatures well below −60°C. 2012 C. D. Reese Accident/Incident Prevention Techniques (ed. 2) xxiii. 234 Clothing should be selected to suit the degree of cold, level of activity, and job design. P3. to leave out in the cold: to neglect intentionally, to exclude from something necessary or desirable, to force to fend for oneself (usually in passive). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] fordita800 forheedc1275 forget1297 to let out ofa1300 spele1338 to go beside ——a1382 waivec1400 remiss?a1425 to go by ——?c1450 misknowledge?a1475 misknow1483 misken1494 to go besides ——1530 to let pass1530 unregard1545 unmind1562 overlook1570 mislippen1581 suspend1581 omit1589 blanch1605 to blow off1631 disregard1641 to pass with ——1641 to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654 prescind1654 nihilify1656 proscribe1680 unnotice1776 ignore1795 to close one's mind1797 cushion1818 to leave out in the cold1839 overslaugh1846 unheed1847 to write off1861 to look through ——1894 scrub1943 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > neglect foryemeOE misyemeOE miswitec1225 slidec1386 to leave behinda1393 mistendc1400 forgo?a1500 to let go1535 neglecta1538 to leave out in the cold1886 1839 P. Morrill et al. Memorial on Banks & Banking 19 in Documents Printed by Order of Legislature of State of Maine The currency having been reduced to the ‘just and proper limit’ to supply only one of these demands, the bank debtors, (with many others) were ‘left out in the cold’—to the amount of 37 7-10 of all the bank debt. 1842 Daily Atlas (Boston, Mass.) 1 July Poor deluded Bell was left out in the cold! 1861 N.Y. Tribune July (Farmer) The ‘Assents’ continue to come in freely..and the appearances are that at the closing of the books..there will be few shares or bonds left out in the cold. 1886 D. C. Murray First Person Sing. xx. 153 A distant relative..and he left her out in the cold. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxvii. 116 I have a sort of sympathy for Mahomet, I regret that you should have left him out in the cold. 1943 H. Read Politics of Unpolitical iii. 44 Except for poets laureate and political propagandists like Virgil and Pope, they [sc. poets] have always been left out in the cold. 1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 8 Feb. (Business Outlook Suppl.) 16/1 Independent contractors..are also left out in the cold when it comes to other traditional benefits of employment. P4. to come in from the cold: (of a spy) to return from a position of isolation and concealment as an agent in enemy territory; (hence more generally of a person, group, or nation) to emerge from a period of isolation, to be received or welcomed back into a wider community; (of an activity, idea, etc.) to move towards widespread acceptance.Popularized by ‘John le Carré’ (quot. 1963) with punning reference to espionage during the Cold War; in extended use after the title of this novel. ΚΠ 1963 ‘J. le Carré’ Spy who came in from Cold ii. 19 One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold. 1964 N.Y. Times 10 Oct. 27/4 The commissar..imported another [baseball] club from Cuba. The Cubans, if you'll forgive the weather reversal in the idea, were glad to come in from the cold. They..promptly defected. 1971 Observer 31 Jan. 10/7 Bank shares, for so long the orphans of the stock market, started coming in from the cold last week. 1985 Oxford Mail 25 Feb. 8/2 Naturism is a leisure activity that is coming in from the cold... Membership of the Oxford Club has boomed. 1988 M. Moon Small Boy & Others iv. 112 Gay people began ‘coming in from the cold’ in large numbers in the fifties and sixties. 1996 Observer 29 Dec. 11/2 For the first time in 60 years, architects have come in from the cold—no longer a profession trapped in paranoid isolation..but one that has suddenly been propelled centre stage. 2004 N.Y. Times 31 July a17/5 Colonel Qaddafi brought Libya in from the cold..because he was afraid of losing his grip on power. < as lemmas |
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