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单词 to come to handgrips
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to come to handgrips
1. An act of grasping or seizing with the hand, esp. when fighting; a grip, a grasp. Now chiefly in phrases, as to come to handgrips, to be at (also in) handgrips, etc. Also figurative. Cf. handgripe n., handigrip n.Sometimes more generally with reference to fighting at close quarters, as opposed to specifically with one's bare hands.
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the mind > possession > [noun] > possession and control > possession and power or clutches
gripOE
handgripOE
crook?c1225
fist1297
fangera1300
holtc1375
in one's clawsc1386
clutcha1529
handgripe1534
clamps1548
clums1567
clamsa1569
embracement1599
pounce1614
embracea1627
the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [noun] > firmness of hold > grip or grasp
gripOE
handgripOE
holtc1375
cleeka1400
handfast1540
handy-gripe1542
handigrip1579
gripple1596
fang1597
grasp1609
clutch1785
death grip1792
OE Beowulf (2008) 965 He for handgripe minum scolde licgean lifbysig.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4002 Sal i slip And fal noght in his hand grip.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 183 A iollie man..Good at hand grippes, better to fight a farre.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iv. 45/2 Now at actual handgrips with Destiny herself.
1858 Frederick the Great (1865) I. iv. ii. 281 The Bridge of Cassano; where Eugene and Vendôme came to handgrips.
1890 Atlantic Monthly May 615/2 Sir Peter, now almost at handgrips with starvation, lives on false promises and vain hopes.
1908 Bystander 6 May 277/2 The fight went on, and several members were in handgrips, and hitting out at each other with their clenched fists.
1988 Times (Nexis) 23 Apr. That relentless desire to be at handgrips with the enemy, which is the hall-mark of victorious infantry in all ages.
2011 R. E. Howard Sword Woman & Other Hist. Adventures 243 The Black Cathayans had emptied their quivers and the Mongols wished only to come to hand-grips.
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