| 单词 | to gather up one's crumbs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto gather (or pick) up one's crumbs ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)] wholeeOE botenc1225 cover1297 amendc1325 recovera1375 warisha1386 recovera1387 healc1390 recurec1400 soundc1402 mendc1440 convalesce1483 guarish1489 restore1494 refete?a1505 revert1531 to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs1589 cure1597 recruit1644 to perk upa1656 retrieve1675 to pick up1740 to leave one's bed1742 to sit up and take nourishment1796 to get round1798 to come round1818 to pull through1830 rally1831 to fetch round1870 to mend up1877 to pull round1889 recoup1896 recuperate1897 1589 A. Ingram Let. 9 Sept. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 819 Our men began to gather vp their crums and to recouer some better strength. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. i. 1 Thanke God I..am recovering and picking up my crummes apace. 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) To Pick up One's Crums, to gather strength. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvii. 294 The Boston boy..had ‘picked up his crumbs’, was..getting strength and confidence daily. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) A person or animal improving in appearance is said to be picking up his crumbs. < as lemmas |
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