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单词 to fight sore at heart
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to fight sore at heart
9. to fight shy: perhaps originally to lose confidence in battle; recorded only in the sense: To keep aloof, avoid intercourse with a person, evade an undertaking, etc. Const. of. Similarly in 15th cent. to fight sore at heart.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > suffer mental pain [verb (intransitive)]
tholec897
throwOE
smarta1200
pinea1225
to well in woea1350
painc1350
labourc1450
to fight sore at heart1490
tear1666
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > lack of social communications or relations [verb (intransitive)]
to keep quarterc1550
uncompane1589
to have nothing to say to (also with)1603
to live in (also within) oneself1644
to keep oneself to oneself1748
to fight shy1778
to cultivate one's (own) garden1789
to hoe one's own row1832
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid
avoid1577
to shy out of1792
to fight shy1821
to run a mile1835
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 125 He knewe well he sayd trouth, and beganne to fyghte sore atte his herte.
1778 F. Burney Let. 3 Sept. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 124 I fight very shy with Mr. Seward, &..he takes the hint.
1786 H. Mackenzie Lounger No. 98. ⁋2 I fought a little shy, as the saying is.
1821 W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) II. 44 I have..had to fight shy of invitations that would exhaust time and spirits.
1867 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (ed. 2) 138 The better sort of people fight shy of him.
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