| 单词 | to get one's own back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get one's own back 4. intransitive. British. to get one's own back: to revenge oneself (on someone); to get even. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > take or execute revenge [verb (intransitive)] > be revenged avengec1375 awreak1377 vengec1380 revenge?a1425 to get one's own back1887 1887 Leicester Chron. & Leics. Mercury 29 Oct. 2/4 Do you see this? That is [the wound caused by] the pewter pot. I have come to get my own back. 1902 J. Milne Epist. Atkins iv. 63 His one thought how to ‘get his own back’. 1914 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion iv Higgins... You have wounded me to the heart. Liza... I'm glad. I've got a little of my own back. 1920 ‘Ixion’ Motor Cycle Reminisc. 124 Whenever he met me I was able to get my own back. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Feb. 73/4 The clerks..get their own back by unmasking frauds and..having fun with the low standard of French commercial honesty. 1985 I. Murdoch Good Apprentice iii. 513 He had been..made a fool of by Thomas, Stuart, Edward, chance, fate, Midge herself. He would get his own back on them all. 2003 Radio Times 22 Nov. (Midlands ed.) 59/1 The actor took the opportunity to get his own back on his notoriously pernickety friend by making him repeat the scene many times. < as lemmas |
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