| 单词 | to give the worst |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give (a person) the worst (b) to give (a person) the worst: to defeat or overcome (a person). In later use usually to give (a person) the worst of (also on) it. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1627 in Huntington Libr. Q. (2004) 67 19 But though they did prevaile Against us at the first, Yet wee bore up soe well againe, That we gave them the worst. a1635 R. Sibbes Learned Comm. 2 Cor. iv. (1656) 137 Cast down, by persecution prevailing; persecution prevailing doth cast men down, and give them the worst in the eye of the world, but yet we are not destroyed. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 128 Why, I would a fought as long as Breath had been in me; and had I so done, I am sure you could never have given me the worst on't . View more context for this quotation 1897 in J. D. Horan Desperate Men (1997) xxviii. 237 You have give us the worst of it all the way through and you must stay out or die. 1901 P. Woodruff Backwoods Philosopher (1998) 193 She used to sit up at night scheming how she could give him the worst of it. < as lemmas |
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