单词 | to gasp up the ghost |
释义 | > as lemmasto gasp up the ghost ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dying to have one foot in the (also his, etc.) grave?1483 to draw on1484 to gasp up the ghost1577 gore1577 to turn one's face to the wall1579 to gasp one's last1603 groan1642 not to be long for this world1665 strugglea1674 to falter forth or out1814 to sprawl one's last1837 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 14/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I They left them goaring in their bloude..and gasping vp their flitting goastes. 1611 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 401 Som groaning Pagan may gasp out his ghost. 1850 H. Melville White-jacket xciii. 462 We have seen..our last man gasp out the ghost in the stifling Sick-bay. 1884 Puck (N.Y.) 5 Mar. 6/2 He gasped up the ghost. < as lemmas |
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