| 单词 | to fix one's face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fix one's face b. In wider sense (chiefly U.S. colloquial): To arrange, get ready, put in order; to put to rights, make tidy, ‘rig up’; spec. to prepare (food or drink). Also with off, over, and up and const. for (doing something). to fix out, ‘to set out, display, adorn, supply, fit out’ ( Cent.); to fix the table (see quot. 18422); to fix one's face, etc.: to put on or rearrange one's make-up, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything feather?c1225 serve?c1225 astore1297 purveya1325 purveyc1325 warnishc1330 supply1384 bego1393 garnish?a1400 stuff14.. instore1432 relievec1480 providec1485 appurvey1487 support?1507 furnishc1515 repair1518 supply1529 speed1531 help (a person) to (also with)1569 sort1598 suffice1600 enduea1616 starta1640 employ1690 find1713 to fix out1725 issue1737 service1969 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > prepare or put in order tailc1330 ordain1340 disposec1375 appoint1393 fettlea1400 tifta1400 richc1400 tiffc1400 orderc1515 instruct1534 prune1586 compose1612 to make up1759 fix1783 the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > put in order or tidy redeOE slick1340 redda1500 prepare1585 spruce1594 rid1599 snod1608 to clear up1762 snug1787 ted1811 tidy1821 side1825 fix1832 to pick up1853 mense1859 straighten1867 square1909 neaten1942 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > prepare food [verb (transitive)] makeOE dightc1320 dressa1325 array1366 prepare1490 guise1604 catea1617 trick1824 fix1839 get1873 nap1961 the world > food and drink > food > setting table > [verb (transitive)] layc1300 spreadc1300 setc1386 servec1405 cover1563 to lay in1788 lie1809 fix1842 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > beautify the skin or complexion [verb (intransitive)] to do (also to put on) one's (or a) face1923 to fix one's face1933 1725 S. Willard in H. S. Nourse Early Rec. Lancaster, Mass. (1884) 237 I fixed the men out with stores. 1769 I. Bickerstaff Dr. Last ii. vii We'd fix things directly; I'll settle whatever you please upon her.] 1783 Jas. Smith Tour 1 Dec. in Ohio State Archaeol. & Hist. Q. (1907) XVI. 360 After having fixed up our luggage and taken breakfast we started from Capt. Owsley's. 1804 W. Clark Let. 21 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. 301 Captain Lewis..has been detained at St. Louis to fix off the Osage chiefs. ?a1832 F. Trollope Notebks. in Domest. Manners Amer. (1949) App. A. 414 You must fix me a drink. 1832 T. B. Macaulay Life & Lett. (1883) I. 272 As soon as I was fixed in my best and had breakfasted. 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 228 ‘Shall I fix your coat or your breakfast first?’ 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. ii. 46 You call upon a gentleman in a country town, and his help informs you that he is ‘fixing himself’ just now, but will be down directly: by which you are to understand that he is dressing. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. ii. 46 You inquire..whether breakfast will be ready soon, and he tells you..they were ‘fixing the tables:’ in other words, laying the cloth. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. ii. 46 You are advised to have recourse to Doctor so and so, who will ‘fix you’ in no time. 1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 99 Tom had unfortunately fixed him for visiting his mother on crutches. 1856 Knickerbocker June 617 Only point me out your traps, and I'll send them up to the hotel, and fix you off all as square as a box. 1860 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner (1887) 77 Come here, girls, and fix yourselves in the glass. 1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House IV. xlv. 278 He examined the last roll of proof..and said..‘I can fix off a sheet for you.’ 1882 A. Edwardes Ballroom Repent. I. 4 None of the physicians in Europe can fix her up. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xxvi. 286 [The feud] could have been fixed up, easy enough. 1884 M. E. Wilkins in Harper's Mag. July 304/2 I'll hev to fix me up some thoroughwort tea. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee Word 22 We fixed up an agreement. 1891 B. Harte First Family Tasajara ii Mother'll fix you suthin' hot. 1893 W. Tirebuck Sweetheart Gwen ii. iii. 223 It's the weekly meeting and I fix the table. 1908 R. W. Chambers Firing Line xxi. 367 Use a sponge and cold water and fix your hair and put on your shoes. 1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan 279 Tell him to show that to the man at the ticket office and he will fix him out. 1928 A. Waugh Last Chukka 87 Why don't we go into the club now, and fix it up? 1933 A. Christie Lord Edgware Dies ii. 23 Come in here and talk to me while I fix my face. 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas ii. 23 They come to take me out to some party, and they find me in my kitchen in a gingham wrapper, fixing a Welsh rarebit. 1941 J. P. Marquand H. M. Pulham, Esq. xxiv. 385 When we did have a guest, Gladys had to move..into the old nursery, which we never had got around to fixing over. 1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) v. 103 Cutting sandwiches and fixing drinks. 1953 N. Gordimer Lying Days ii. vii. 69 In my room..I fixed my hair this way and that. 1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xiii. 88 I should go and fix my face. 1969 ‘A. Glyn’ Dragon Variation iii. 74 She..went to the bathroom, bathed her face and fixed it. < as lemmas |
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