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单词 to fret one's gizzard
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to fret one's gizzard
2. Jocularly attributed to persons, esp. in phrases, to fret one's gizzard: to worry oneself. See also to stick in the gizzard at stick v.1 26b.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > [verb (reflexive)]
fretc1290
overfret1445
solicita1450
turmoil?1529
moila1560
to fret one's gizzard1755
to worry (oneself), be worried, sick1952
1668 S. Pepys Diary 17 June (1976) IX. 243 I find my wife hath something in her gizzard that which waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up.
1672 R. Wild Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 11 There was some grumbling of the Gizard.
1679 Vindic. Sir T. Player 1/2 'Tis the Matter, not the Manner that sticks in our Unworthy Respondents Gizzard.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxlix. 305 Satisfaction and Restitution lie so Cursedly hard upon the Gizzards of our Publicans, that [etc.].
1716 tr. T.-S. Gueullette Thousand & One Quarters of Hours 175 I was going home, grumbling in the Gizzard.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 93 Don't let that stick in your Gizzard.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. s.v., 2. It is proverbially used for apprehension or conception of mind: as, he frets his gizzard, he harrasses his imagination.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To grumble in the gizzard’, to complain and be dissatisfied.
1833 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 322 That odious Protestantism sticks in people's gizzard.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 166 That little one, she warms my gizzard.
1879 K. S. Macquoid Berkshire Lady 153 Pick a quarrel and..run him through the gizzard.
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