| 单词 | to come to a sticky end |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto 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. < as lemmas |
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