| 单词 | to lose one's grip |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lose one's grip b. Intellectual or mental hold; power to apprehend or master a subject. to lose one's grip (cf. lose v.1 3d). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > fail to maintain a level of achievement to lose one's grip1861 slip1930 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > intellectual command, mastery > [noun] gropeOE sciencea1387 mastery1585 mastership1612 grasp1683 grip1861 masterhood1869 1635 D. Dickson Short Explan. Hebrewes vi. 19. 110 And nowe hee showeth the stabilitie of the grippe which the Believer taketh of these groundes, in the similitude of the grippe which a Shippes Ancre taketh, beeing casten on good ground.] 1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 309 His brain does not retain with the sure grip it once did. 1875 J. Miller First Fam'lies Sierras (1876) 246 Lost my ‘grip’.., didn't have any ‘snap’ any more. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Feb. 4/1 It [a play] lacks colour, stamina, in short, the indefinable something known as ‘grip’. 1885 Manch. Examiner 28 Jan. 3/4 An essay..singularly deficient both in intellectual grip and literary charm. 1894 A. Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes 3 I have a grip of the essential facts of the case. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson xx. 273 Come, cheer up, old man; there's no use in losing your grip. 1968 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 122/5 His work after the war shows a steady decline.., until he seems to have lost his grip altogether. < as lemmas |
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