单词 | to get or take wind |
释义 | > as lemmasto get or take wind a. to get or take wind: to be revealed or divulged, become known, transpire. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed to come to (also in, on) (the) lightOE sutelea1000 kitheOE unfoldc1350 disclosea1513 burst1542 to break up1584 to take vent1611 vent1622 bleed1645 emerge1664 to get (also have) vent1668 to get or take wind1668 to stand (appear) confessed1708 eclat1736 perspire1748 transpire1748 to come out1751 develop1805 unroll1807 spunk1808 effloresce1834 to come to the front1871 to show up1879 out1894 evolve1920 to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964 1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all iv. 46 Keep this Wooing secret; if it takes the least wind, old Moody will be sure to hinder it. 1682 News from France 15 So the thing got wind, and was lookt on as a great impiety. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 30 Dec. (1948) II. 452 Masham's being a lord begins to take wind: nothing at Court can be kept a secret. 1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 90/2 It got wind, and a great many people asked me: I told them. 1808 W. Scott Let. 23 Dec. (1932) II. 141 Do you know the Review begins to get wind here? 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. vi. 401 Long before that time, the project had taken wind, and created a general sensation through the country. 1884 C. L. Pirkis Judith Wynne III. xi. 126 It's getting wind in the neighbourhood that the child is lost. < as lemmas |
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