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单词 to clear, pay, quit a score or scores
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to clear, pay, quit a score or scores
b. figurative, esp. in certain phrases. to clear, pay, quit a score or scores: to requite an obligation; sometimes, to revenge an injury, to ‘be even with’ some one. †to cut the score, to cut scores: to forgive a debt. Also to pay off, rub out, etc., old scores.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > [noun] > an immaterial debt
debtc1386
devoirc1386
scorea1617
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > do one's duty [verb (intransitive)] > requite an obligation
to clear, pay, quit a score or scoresa1617
society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > pay debt [verb (intransitive)] > release from payment
to cut the scorea1617
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > even or be even with
to clear, pay, quit a score or scores1707
even1856
a1617 P. Baynes Entire Comm. Epist. Paul to Ephesians (1643) (ii. 3) 209 God cuts all scores betwixt him and his children.
1634 H. Sydenham Serm. (1637) 70 That that Justice which is conferr'd on them, consists rather in the participation of Christs merits, who cut the score, than in any perfection of Vertues.
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. v. ii. 147 Yet, forced by need, e're I can clear that score, I, like ill debtors, come to borrow more.
1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. ix. §90 To the Grandfather, there is due a long Score of Care and Expences laid out upon the Breeding and Education of his Son.
1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility vi. 252 Which she readily accepts, and perhaps does not make so much haste to quit scores, as Pride does.
1775 R. B. Sheridan St. Patrick's Day i. i Are you sure you do nothing to quit scores with them?
1787 J. Wolcot Ode upon Ode (ed. 5) 25 A pretty Way of rubbing out old Scores!
?1863 T. Taylor Ticket-of-leave Man iii. 56 There's the satisfaction of doing one's duty..but there's something better than that... Paying off old scores.
1913 E. Phillpotts Widecombe Fair xxx. 236 This evening..promised good opportunity to pay off old scores.
1918 L. Strachey Eminent Victorians 67 The old scores, they found, were not to be paid off, but to be wiped out.
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