| 单词 | to lead by the nose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lead by the nose c. figurative (a) In opposition to drive: To guide by persuasion as contrasted with commands or threats. (b) to lead by the nose (for the allusion cf. quot. a1616): to cause to obey submissively. Also †to lead by the sleeve. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > make submissive stoopc1275 to lead by the sleevec1425 to lead by the nose1583 subdue1598 woman1611 melt1668 to make a woman of1742 the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > guide by persuasion lead1589 c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 1680 How false idolatry ledeth hem by the sleue. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxi. 745 Men..suffer themselues to bee led by the noses like brute beasts. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 246 Princes may be lead but not driuen. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 393 The Moore..will as tenderly be led bit'h nose—as Asses are. View more context for this quotation 1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 20 You shall meete with ignorant Juryes, your duty is to open their eyes, you may not leade them by the nose. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas III. vii. xii. 77 They [sc. the great] have favourite domestics, who lead them by the nose. 1856 C. Kingsley Plays & Puritans 211 A mob of fools and knaves, led by the nose in each generation by a few arch-fools and arch-knaves. 1862 Temple Bar 4 167 She might be led, but would not be driven. < as lemmas |
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