| 单词 | to go to the wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go to the wall (or †walls) Phrases P1. to go to the wall (or †walls): a. to give way, succumb in a conflict or struggle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated or overthrown [verb (intransitive)] fallOE to come (also go) to the groundc1175 confusec1330 to go away (also flee) with the worsea1413 to go to (also unto) the worse1485 to go to the wall (or walls)1549 foil1591 to go to the posta1624 to have had one's chips1959 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Aiiij They neuer went to the wall, till they grewe to be factious. 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 111 Wee should go to the walles, be wronged and exacted vpon euery where. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxix Sam and Mayford are both desperately in love with her, and one must go to the wall. 1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) xx. 385 It is easy to see which power will go to the wall if a conflict occurs. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xliii. 383 In all these struggles Crosbie had had the best of it, and Butterwell had gone to the wall. b. Of a business, matter, etc.: to give way or give precedence (to something else). ΚΠ 1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer III. 519 Here is another case of metre against history, and in all such cases history must go (as is said) to the wall. 1890 J. MacCarthy Hist. Four Georges II. 45 Where political interests interfered family arrangements went to the wall. c. To fail in business. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of persons > in business to go to the wall (or walls)1842 to belly up1886 1842 W. M. Thackeray Miss Tickletoby's Lect. vi, in Wks. (1886) XXIV. 37 It was better for all parties that poor Shortlegs should go to the wall. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross III. xi. 286 He had been the property of some East-end Bowker, who, in classical language, had ‘gone to the wall’. 1879 H. Spencer Data of Ethics xv. §103. 266 Others of his [a merchant's] debtors by going to the wall may put him in further difficulties. 1891 19th Cent. Dec. 861 In Berlin a newspaper would very soon go to the wall if it did not present its subscribers with light entertainment. P2. to †set (also †thrust, or send) to the wall: to thrust aside into a position of neglect. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > neglect > thrust aside into position of neglect to set (also thrust, or send) to the wall1583 shelve1847 pigeonhole1855 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. viii. 376 God knowes..howe often they are wrecked and wronged and set to the wall by cruell..and harde hearted men. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. i. 15 Women being the weaker vessels are euer thrust to the wall . View more context for this quotation 1881 E. W. Hamilton Diary 13 Mar. (1972) I. 115 Lord Bath..is much exercised in his mind as to the Greek question sending to the wall the interests of Servia. 1901 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 411/1 During the later fifties he was sent to the wall by the superior talents of the late Robert Prowse. P3. to drive (also push) to the wall: to drive to the last extremity. with or having one's back to the wall: see back n.1 25. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > force into a difficult situation > force into an inescapable position to drive (also push) to the wall1546 to drive into a corner1548 corner1841 to box (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner1955 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiiiv That dede without words shal dryue him to the wal. And further than the wall, he can not go. 1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes 34 The Colonell thus driven to the wall and worsted on every hand, used two pleas more for his last reserve. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. v. 127 I see what you are driving me to the wa' about. 1828 W. F. Napier Hist. War Peninsula I. iii. iii. 336 The commissaries pushed to the wall by the delay, offered an exorbitant remuneration. 1860 L. V. Harcourt Diaries G. Rose II. 30 Being..driven to the wall, Addington complied. P4. a. to give a person the wall: to allow a person the right or privilege of walking next the wall as the cleaner and safer side of a pavement, sidewalk, etc. Similarly, to have the wall, to take the wall (of a person), to have, take the inside position. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [verb (transitive)] to go before ——OE overlightlOE preferc1395 precede1485 precess1529 to take the wall (of a person)?1562 outshine1605 to have the place1659 to take the road of1670 rank1841 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > traverse on foot [verb (transitive)] > allow right or privilege of walking next to wall to give a person the wall?1562 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > treat discourteously [verb (transitive)] > specifically by taking inside of pavement to take the wall (of a person)?1562 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use formal courtesy in act or expression [verb (intransitive)] > be allowed to walk next to wall to take the wall (of a person)?1562 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > allow (a person) to walk next to wall to give a person the wall?1562 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > allow (a person) to walk next to wall > walk nearer to wall than to have the wall?1562 ?1562 Thersytes sig. A.iv Yes yes god wote, they geve me the wall Or elles with my clubbe, I make them to fall. 1592 Arden of Feversham v. i I haue made some go vppon wodden legges for taking the wall on me. 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 95 The Persians had a law enioyning all men..to giue him [an elder] the wall when they mett him in the streetes. 1671 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility iii. 17 To allow him the upper end of the Table or Chamber, and the Wall, as they walk in the Streets. 1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 20 Sept. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 281 [ Johnson] said, that in the last age, when his mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome... ‘Now,..it is fixed that every man keeps to the right; or, if one is taking the wall, another yields it, and it is never a dispute’. 1869 A. J. Munby Diary 24 Dec. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) vii. 278 ‘If a nigger didn't give me the wall, I'd knock him down as soon as look at him!’ Here we have the British Philistine. b. figurative. (In early use sometimes without article, to give wall, to take wall.) ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [verb (intransitive)] to take wall1591 better1592 to take place1602 to be a huckleberry to (or over) someone's persimmon1832 1591 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Prognost. in Wks. (Grosart) II. 157 The Bakers Basket shall giue wall vnto the Brewers Barrell. 1608 Bp. J. Hall Pharisaisme & Christianity 51 Some Traditions must haue place in euery Church; but their place: they may not take wall of Scripture. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) iii. i. 137 If a supposed, & self respective good be suffer'd to take the wall of the best, & absolute good. 1679 R. Wild Oliver Cromwells Ghost 2 Though old in Artful Wickedness I be, Yet Rome, I now Resign the Wall to thee. 1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 59 According to nice Herald-like Ceremony, the Son, as the better Gentleman, ought to take the Wall of the Father. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > launching a vessel > be launched [verb (intransitive)] > of ship: lie unused in harbour to lie by the wall (or walls)1579 to lie up1699 society > travel > travel by water > launching a vessel > launch or set afloat [verb (transitive)] > lay up unused to lay by the walls1579 to lay up1667 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > remain unused [verb (intransitive)] atliec1000 lie1377 to lie by the wall (or walls)1579 to lie by1642 sit1839 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 46/2 And the law in the meane time must lye by the walles [Fr. demeure là]. 1656 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 82 I am glad the mariners are so sensible of the laying of our English ships by the walls. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 462 Our ships lie by the walls, and theirs ride. 1672 J. Wallis Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 529 To put forth what France is not willing to venture upon, provided that it do not hinder the printing those of our own nation,..which lie by the wall for want of publishing. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 72 He walk'd..towards that Part of the Creek, where..three of their biggest Ships lay by the Walls. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. at Wall He lies by the wall. Spoken of a person dead but not buried. Norf. and Suf. P6. (to be able) to see, etc. through (also into) a (brick, mud, stone) wall: to be endowed with great keenness of perception or understanding. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > achieve understanding [phrase] to see, etc. through (also into) a (brick, mud, stone) wall1598 to read someone like an open book1827 there are no flies on1848 to get under the skin of1862 to get or have (someone or something) taped1914 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 46 Thou knowst I am sure, for thou canst cast thine eie Through nine mud wals, or els old Poets lie. 1885 Illustr. London News 7 Feb. 136/4 Lord Sherbrooke..can see as far as most people into a stone wall. P7. to turn one's face to the wall: said of a person on his deathbed conscious of the approach of the end (?after 2 Kings 20:2, Isaiah 38:2). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dying to have one foot in the (also his, etc.) grave?1483 to draw on1484 to gasp up the ghost1577 gore1577 to turn one's face to the wall1579 to gasp one's last1603 groan1642 not to be long for this world1665 strugglea1674 to falter forth or out1814 to sprawl one's last1837 1579 in J. G. Nichols Narr. Reformation (1859) (Camden) 35 He turned his face to the walle in the sayd belfry; and so after his prayers sleapte swheetly in the Lorde. 16.. Barbara Allen's Cruelty ix, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1886) II. iv. 277 He turnd his face unto the wall, And death came creeping to him. 1856 C. Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. I. xxi. 304 He [Henry II] turned his face to the wall, and exclaimed, ‘Let every thing go as it will’. [Cf. Girald. Cambrens. (Rolls) VIII. 295 iterum se lecto reclinans faciemque suam ad parietem vertens.] 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer iii. 38 He would turn his face to the wall, and die with that word unsaid. P8. to go over the wall and variants: (a) to go to prison; (b) to escape from prison; (c) to leave a religious order; (d) to defect (to another country). Hence (e) over the wall adverbial phrase, escaped from prison; in prison. slang. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [adverb] > escaped from prison over the wall1917 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > be imprisoned [verb (intransitive)] > go to prison to go over the wall1917 to go away1949 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [phrase] > escape from prison to go over the wall1917 society > faith > church government > monasticism > [verb (transitive)] > leave an order to go over the wall1917 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > disloyalty > cast off allegiance or defect [verb (intransitive)] recede1520 defect1596 degenerate1602 to fall overa1616 to go over the wall1917 a. b.1933 Amer. Speech 8 iii. 27/1 Go over the wall, escape.1936 L. Duncan (title) Over the wall.1936 L. Duncan Over Wall vi. 95 Us guys..pull wires to get jobs as guards, and you convicts go over the wall whenever you can.1963 Times 5 June 16/1 He knew it was an unwritten law that an escape extinguished such a debt, and so he decided to ‘go over the wall’. He gave himself up at Clacton-on-Sea.1974 ‘P. B. Yuill’ Hazell plays Solomon vi. 66 You really think Mancini would've tried to go over the wall?c.1949 M. Baldwin (title) I leap over the wall. A return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent.1970 Harper's Mag. Apr. 110 Mr. Vizzard was a Jesuit seminarian who yearned for the world, leapt over the wall, and found what he was looking for in Hollywood.1979 ‘E. Anthony’ Grave of Truth vii. 190 A bride of Christ, eh? What happens if she jumps over the wall..decides she's had enough of convent life..?d.1976 M. Butterworth Remains to be Seen v. 84 The bloody place [sc. the Foreign Office]..has never been the same since Kim [Philby] went over the wall.e.1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 85/2 Over the wall, escaped from prison.1973 G. Beare Snake on Grave xxiii. 141 He's out. Over the wall.1917 W. Muir Observ. Orderly xiv. 228 He would be observed ‘going over the wall’ or ‘going to stir’ (going to detention prison). P9. up the wall: angry, furious; distraught, mad, crazy; esp. in phrases to climb up the wall, run up the wall: to become very angry or distraught; to drive up the wall, send (someone) up the wall: to infuriate or put into a frenzy. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > drive mad [verb (transitive)] turn1372 mada1425 overthrow?a1425 to go (also fall, run) mada1450 deferc1480 craze1503 to face (a person) out ofc1530 dement1545 distemper1581 shake1594 distract1600 to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1600 unwita1616 insaniate?1623 embedlama1628 dementate1628 crack1631 unreason1643 bemad1655 ecstasya1657 overset1695 madden1720 maddle1775 insanify1809 derange1825 bemoon1866 send (someone) up the wall1951 the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > infuriate [verb (transitive)] anangeredc1380 enfelon1477 ournc1540 fierce1565 enrage1589 effierce1590 eneager1594 rage1597 ferocitate1666 infuriate1667 madden1720 frenzy1810 furify1872 burn1935 send (someone) up the wall1951 the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry grim971 aweddeOE woodlyc1000 anburstc1275 woodc1275 aburstc1300 eagerc1325 brotheful1330 brothely1330 furiousc1374 wroth as (the) wind1377 throc1380 fella1382 wrothlya1400 grindelc1400 raginga1425 furibund1490 bremit1535 outraging1567 fulminant?1578 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 snuff1582 woodful1582 maddeda1586 rageful1585 furibundal1593 gary1609 fierce1611 wild1653 infuriate1667 hopping mad1675 maddened1735 sulphureous1751 savage1789 infuriated1796 bouncing mad1834 frenzy1859 furyinga1861 ropeable1870 furied1878 fulminous1886 livid1888 fit to be tied1894 hopping1894 fighting mad1896 tamping mad1946 up the wall1951 ravers1967 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging aweddeOE woodc1000 woodlyc1000 wildc1300 franticc1390 ramage1440 welling woodc1440 staringc1449 rammistc1455 rabious1460 horn-wood?a1500 rammisha1500 enragea1522 frenzic1547 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 woodful1582 frenzicala1586 ragefula1586 rabid1594 ravening1599 ravenous1607 Pythic1640 exorbitant1668 frenziful1726 haggard-wild1786 frenzied1796 maenadic1830 berserk1867 up the wall1951 ballistic1981 1951 S. Kaye-Smith Mrs. Gailey 160 Your mother's running up the wall because he came to dinner. 1953 H. Clevely Public Enemy xvii. 101 Old Marks 'll climb up the wall if he hears I closed early. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 307 You drive me up the wall. What sort of a mess have you got poor Dad into? 1959 Observer 21 June 8/8 When they found out he was a Catholic, they were up the wall. 1961 New Left Rev. Mar. 30/1 She was right up the wall, and poor Aunt Ada isn't in any state to help. 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 40 Sends me up ther bloody wall. 1970 New Yorker 3 Oct. 105/1 Success or failure hardly entered into the picture. It was this kind of argument that drove some..executives up the wall. 1975 ‘E. Lathen’ By Hook or by Crook xiv. 138 The American wife, the sweetie-pie who sends Everett up the wall. 1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. vi. 15/2 The prejudice is so acute; that country is up the wall. P10. off the wall (also with hyphens used attributive): unorthodox, unconventional; instinctive, intuitive, off the cuff. (See also quot. 1966.) Also used adverbially. U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > standard of conduct [phrase] > not out of rule1685 off the wall1966 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > natural impulse, instinct > [adverb] naturallyc1390 naturallyc1395 instinctivelya1616 voluntarily1700 instinctive1716 off the wall1966 the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [adverb] > in unplanned manner suddenly1340 of unwarninga1400 on, upon, rarely of, in (a) suddenty1469 casuallya1549 extemporea1556 of (upon) this sudden1572 extemporally1577 at (the or a) volley1578 on (or o') the volley1578 extrumpery1582 unpremeditately1607 extemporary1610 extempory1623 extemporarily1667 impromptu1669 ad aperturam libri1679 unpremeditatedly1694 impulsively1768 extemporaneously1791 promiscuously1791 spontaneously1799 on (also upon) the spur of the moment (or occasion, etc.)1801 spontaneous1810 promiscuous1826 improvisedly1851 off-handedly1876 at the first jet1878 off the cuff1927 off the top of one's head1939 off the wall1966 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > not conforming to rule or standard [phrase] off the wall1966 1966 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) Summer 3 Off the wall, unimpressive... I have a lit. professor who's off the wall. 1968–70 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3–4 88 Off the wall, adj. Unusual; unorthodox; ‘crazy’. 1974 National Rev. (U.S.) 4 Jan. 47/2 Brian knows how to startle the over-interviewed with off-the-wall questions that get surprising answers: Ever see a ghost? 1975 San Francisco Chron. 11 Jan. 12/3 He became suspicious when Dickenson answered extremely complex questions ‘off the wall’. 1976 Time 5 Apr. 74 ‘I just thought it was off-the-wall funny’, says Lear. 1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) iv. 14/1 She had decided to play the whole scene off the wall, to just go with the flow... The really authentic thing to do was to act on your impulses. 1977 Listener 20 Oct. 498/2 Among the many new sources of cash—it's called ‘off the wall’ fundraising—I have heard about a tribe of Apaches which..invested $2 million in the making of..a western. 1982 Penthouse Dec. 84 He started talking off the wall about how he should go to El Salvador. < as lemmas |
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