请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 to come to a sticky end
释义

> as lemmas

to come to a sticky end
P2. colloquial. to come to a sticky end and variants: to die or come to grief in violent or exceptionally unpleasant circumstances.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief
misfareOE
miswendOE
misferec1275
misspeeda1387
miscarryc1387
mischieve?a1400
to catch copper1530
to lose one's seatc1540
mischief1598
to bu(r)st one's boiler1824
to come to grief1850
to come (also go) a mucker1851
to come (fall, get) a cropper1858
mucker1862
to go or be up the flume1865
to come undone1899
to play smash1903
to come to a sticky end1904
to come unstuck1911
the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die violently
perishc1275
to shed blood?1473
to die in one's shoes1694
to come to a sticky end1904
1904 Telegraph (Brisbane) 3 Aug. 6/1 His warning that Madame Sophie, if she did not mind, would come to a ‘nasty, sticky end’, was the signal for screams of laughter.
1913 Hansard Commons 10 July 685 That Government came to a more sticky end than almost any other Government in the last hundred years.
1915 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 40 I wish we could get out to the front... I would much rather come to a sticky end out there than here.
1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement xi. 566 Never mind, he'll come to a sticky finish before he's done.
1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird ix. 142 The heroines I've seen come to a sticky end because while the murderer's still running around no one calls in the police.
1998 Callaloo 21 549 Of the six protagonists, some meet a sticky end, others disappear without a sound, and still others bring hope.
2006 Heat 18 Mar. 110/3 The moustachioed sleuth..ends up snooping for clues when the host comes to a sticky end.
extracted from stickyadj.2
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/3/1 8:42:31