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单词 to come to town
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to come to town
P1. to come to town: to make an appearance, to arrive. Formerly also: †to become established, to become common (obsolete). Cf. to come to land at land n.1 Phrases 1c.Originally with reference to sense 3b, later reinterpreted as showing sense 4.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach a point or place [verb (intransitive)] > arrive
comeOE
to come to townOE
yworthOE
lend11..
lightc1225
to come anovenonc1275
wina1300
'rivec1300
repaira1325
applyc1384
to come ina1399
rede?a1400
arrivec1400
attainc1400
alightc1405
to come to handc1450
unto-comec1450
apport1578
to be along1597
to drop in1609
to come ona1635
to walk in1656
land1679
engage1686
to come along1734
to get in1863
to turn up1870
to fall in1900
to lob1916
to roll up1920
to breeze in1930
to rock up1975
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > deprive of refinement [verb (intransitive)] > be or become vulgar
to come to town1600
vulgarize1605
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > behave badly [verb (intransitive)] > behave in ill-mannered or unrefined way > become unrefined
to come to town1600
the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [verb (intransitive)]
mode1654
to come in1680
to come up1704
to come to town1905
to hang five, ten1962
OE Menologium 8 For þy se kalend us cymeð geþincged on þam ylcan dæge us to tune.
lOE Laws: Gerefa (Corpus Cambr.) x. 454 Me mæig..on hærfeste ripan, in Agusto & Septembri & Octobri mawan, wad spittan.., ær to tune to stið winter cume.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9160 Allse bidell birrþ beon sennd. To ȝarrkenn. & to greȝȝþenn. Onnȝæn hiss laferrd þær þær he Shall cumenn sket to tune.
a1250 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Maidstone) (1955) 121 (MED) Elde cummeþ to tune mid fele unkuþe costes.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 43 Lenten ys come wiþ loue to toune.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14277 ‘Crist,’ sco said, ‘es cummen to tun.’
a1450 (?c1350) Pride of Life l. 157 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 95 (MED) I am Hele icom to toun, Þi kinde curteyse kniȝte.
1600 Newe Metamorphosis (MS) in J. O. Halliwell & T. Wright Nares's Gloss. (1859) II. 893/2 This first was court-like, nowe 'tis come to towne; Tis comon growne with every country clowne.
1661 M. Nedham True Char. Rigid Presbyter 78 The old Saviour needs must gang Now a new one's come to town.
1683 J. Oldham Poems & Transl. 174 Fair stood his hopes, when first he came to Town, Met every where with welcomes of Renown.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. xii. viii. 174 Why here's more News of Madam Sophia come to Town.
1840 C. Giles Convent. of Drunkards (ed. 2) 13 Since this new plague has come to town, The whiskey signs are tumbling down.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) ii, in Writings I. 11 I've been quite in the way of babies to-night,..young master's come to town.
1905 Daily Chron. 11 Mar. 4/6 This Thrums sketch proved to delighted Londoners that J. M. Barrie had ‘come to town’.
1952 E. B. White Let. 6 Apr. (1976) 355 Spring is making little sashays about coming to town, but it has been a fairly unconvincing demonstration so far.
2001 High Country News 23 Apr. 15/3 Move over, SUVs, the T-Rex of all sport utility vehicles is coming to town.
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