| 单词 | to lead in a string |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lead in a string (a) A cord for leading or dragging along a person or an animal; a leading-string, a leash. Also in figurative phrases (especially common in 17–18th centuries), esp. to lead in a string, to have in (or on) a string = to have under control, to be able to do what one likes with. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > lead stringa1300 banda1400 head rope1810 tending-string1821 lead-rope1846 leading-string1859 jerk line1865 guy rein1869 headline1889 society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > have complete control over windc1374 to bring (a person) above the thumb1469 to have to mastery1480 to have at one's beck1530 to turn and wind1557 to bring any one to, or have him at, one's bent1575 to turn over the thumb1603 to lead in a stringc1616 to hold at school1647 to wind (a person, etc.) round one's (little) finger1698 to twirl (a person) round one's finger1748 to twist (a person) round one's finger1780 to play with ——1827 to have (one) on toast1886 to have (got) by the balls1918 to have the wood onc1926 a1300 Deb. Body & Soul in Map's Poems (Camden) 339 An hundred develes..with stringes him drowen, unthanc his, Til he kome to that lodli lowe, ther helle was. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Ii Those that walke as they will,..perswading themselues that they haue the worlde in a string, are like the ruffian Capaney, who [etc.]. 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. C4v He perceiueth not in all this, that I haue his leg in a string still. c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2383 The country parson may, as in a string, Lead the whole parish vnto anything. 1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel 162 He [Alex. the Great] had the world in a string, as our English Proverbial Phrase is. 1682 Wit & Drollery 77 My Dog in a String doth lead me,..For to the Blind, All Men are kind. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse ii. 35 By this means a Lady may..lead twenty Fools about in a String, for two or three Years together. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 36 He's the Captain's humble Pig in a String. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxxvii.* 324 They govern me as a child in strings. 1791 W. Cowper Let. 26 Feb. (1982) III. 470 He either suffer'd prejudice to lead him in a string whithersoever it would, or [etc.]. 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 167 ‘Got him in a string,’ is when a man is made to believe one thing, several others follow as matter of course. 1894 F. Barrett Justif. Lebrun viii. 66 When they believed they had the world on a string. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 352 He..took me down the Woermann Road..as it were on a string. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 18 Sept. 8/2 Mr. H. said he was not a candidate on a string; he had his own convictions. < as lemmas |
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