单词 | to do the worst |
释义 | > as lemmasto do the worst (b) to do the worst: = to do one's worst at Phrases 1a(a). Also with to. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xiv. 48 Blanchardyn herkned the prouost, to whom boldly he answered that he shold doo the best and the worst that he coude [in the joust]. 1528 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 177 [He] beds them to do to hym the best and the worst that they can For he setts not a Strawe by them all. 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) iv. xiv. f. 150v The woorst they can doo, they can but murmur. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xi. 40 I do not feare the flaw, It hath done to me the worst . View more context for this quotation 1752 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 139 I hope the Lord Chancellor's decree will be more favourable than our adversaries would have it, and should he do the worst I trust we shall do very well. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. v. 96 It was not expected that we should interfere in the favour of men who had stood prepared to do the worst against us. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 525 I did the worst to him I loved the most. 1990 D. N. Fewell & D. M. Gunn Compromising Redempt. (2009) ii. iii. 96 Yhwh may do the worst to me, I'll not be parted from you even by death! < as lemmas |
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