单词 | to lose patience, one's temper |
释义 | > as lemmasto lose patience, one's temper d. To fail to maintain (a position, a state of mind or body), e.g. to lose patience, one's temper, to lose hold, one's balance, etc. to lose ground: to fail to keep one's position; esp. figurative to decline in reputation, favour, health, etc.to lose caste: see caste n. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > be or become irritated [verb (intransitive)] enchafec1380 fume and chafec1522 chafe1525 to fret and fume1551 rankle1582 to lose patience, one's temper1622 pique1664 to have no patience with1682 ruffle1719 to be out of the way (with)1740 echinate1792 nettle1810 to get one's dander up1831 to set up one's jay-feathers1880 hackle1935 to get off one's bike1939 the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition afalleOE wanec1000 fallOE ebba1420 to go backward?a1425 to go down?1440 decay1483 sink?a1513 delapsea1530 reel1529 decline1530 to go backwards1562 rue1576 droop1577 ruina1600 set1607 lapse1641 to lose ground1647 to go to pigs and whistles1794 to come (also go) down in the world1819 to peg out1852 to lose hold, one's balance1877 to go under1879 toboggan1887 slip1930 to turn down1936 c1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 189 In that land..we lesse every yere More grounde and more.] a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 143 But allwayes he helde up his shelde and loste no grounde nother batyd no chere. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. vi. sig. E3 At length, the left winge of the Arcadians began to loose ground. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 53 How had they almost made me to lose my patience, and my judgement! 1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes i. xvi. 68 They brake their staves bravely, without losing their saddles. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 838 They astonisht all resistance lost, All courage. View more context for this quotation 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 291 A Current setting to Leeward, we rather lost than got ground. 1775 S. Johnson Let. II. 224 [Quoting Johnson, 13 June (1992)] Boswel is a favourite, but he has lost ground, since I told them that he is married. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. iv. 379 Those suspicions were not likely to lose ground. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xi. 137 Chuffey boggled over his plate so long, that Mr. Jonas, losing patience, took it from him at last. 1877 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 320 He has lost caste and lost all ground of glorying. < as lemmas |
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