| 单词 | to grin through a horsecollar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto grin through a horse-collar 3. Phrases. to grin and abide, to grin and bear it: to submit to one's fate with no other sign of impatience than a grin. to grin in a glass case (slang: see quot. 1785). to grin like a Cheshire cat (see cat n.1 13f). to grin through a horse-collar (see horse-collar n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > must as decreed by fate [verb (intransitive)] > endure one's fate to dree one's weirdc1400 to grin and abide1785 to grin and bear ita1827 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Grin To grin in a glass case, to be anatomised for murder. 1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 424 Thus we have a proverb where no help could be had in pain, ‘to grin and abide’. 1813 E. S. Barrett Heroine III. xxxix. 151 I heard a sudden disturbance below; his lordship crying out, ‘Oh, what shall I do?’ and Jerry bidding him ‘grin and bear it’. a1827 W. Hickey Mem. (1960) viii. 132 Vexed at..the childishness of his behaviour, I answered, ‘I recommend you to grin and bear it’—an expression used by sailors after a long continuance of bad weather. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ in M. Porter Ann. Publishing House (1898) III. ii. 51 ‘Adam Bede’ flourishes, so I grins and bears it! 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. ix. 190 I must grin and bear it. to grin through a horse-collar to grin through a horse-collar: see quot. 1801. Hence allusively, as in quot. 1878.extracted from horse-collarn.< as lemmas |
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