| 单词 | to have one's heart in one's boots |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, †hose, etc.) a. to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, †hose, etc.) and variants: to be in a state of extreme fear or dejection. Also one's heart sinks to one's boots, etc.; similarly to lift one's heart out of one's boots, etc.A fanciful extension of ‘one's heart sinks’: see sink v. 24b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)] heavyOE fallOE droopena1225 lourc1290 droopc1330 to abate one's countenance (also cheer)a1350 dullc1374 fainta1375 languora1375 languisha1382 afflicta1393 gloppen?a1400 weary1434 appalc1450 to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)c1450 peak1580 dumpc1585 mopea1592 sink1603 bate1607 deject1644 despond1655 alamort?1705 sadden1718 dismal1780 munge1790 mug1828 to get one's tail down1853 to have (also get) the pip1881 shadow1888 to have (one's) ass in a sling1960 the mind > emotion > fear > be afraid or fear [verb (intransitive)] > fear excessively to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)c1450 over-fear1583 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > reversal [phrase] Tottenham is turned French1546 to turn the tables1612 to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)1642 the boot is on the other leg1854 the shoe is on the other foot1933 the wheel has come full circle1944 c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 91 Myn herte fil doun vnto my too. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 123 A, thy hart is in thy hose! 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xxii. 174 b Petur beeyng feared with this saiyng of a woman..as if his herte had been in his hele clene gon. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1756/1 When the bishop heard this, by and by his hart was in his heeles, and..he with the rest of that Court betooke them to theyr legges. c1600 Timon (1980) i. v. 18 My hart is at the bottome of my hose. 1642 Lords' Jrnls. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: 3rd Pt. (1721) IV. 559 b Edward Sanderford..said..that the Earl of Warwick was a Traytor, and wished his Heart in his Boots. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 174 Chear up, and pluck thy Heart out of thy Hose! 1715 A. Pennecuik Curious Coll. Scotish Poems in Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale App. 22 To view but Hairhops great Red Roman Nose, Would flee a Rebels Heart, into his Hose. 1798 D. Crawford Poems 52 Yestreen I sang the Scotch kail-brose, An' gat my heart aboon my hose. 1858 Harper's Mag. Mar. 490/2 When this infernal chatter-box wound up, my heart sunk into my shoes. 1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae iii. 54 When we must proceed on one of our abordages, the heart of Francis Burke was in his boots. 1920 T. Moult Snow over Elden ii. 16 When the dear sight of yonder at a journey's end does no longer lift my heart out of my boots back to proper biding place I shall be an owd woman sure enough. 1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xx. 229 Robert's heart sank to his heels with the plummet swoop of an express lift. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari (1962) 164 His handsome face was so charged with resentment..that it sent my own determined heart in to my boots. 1993 Western Horseman Mar. 82/3 We..know the way your heart drops to your boots if your foal has terribly crooked legs. 2007 V. A. Kennard Wolf lvii. 481 As they approached the heli-pad Beowulf's heart sank in his shoes. < as lemmas |
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