单词 | to have shot one's bolt |
释义 | > as lemmasto have shot one's bolt b. figurative and in figurative context. to have shot one's bolt: to have done all that one can do. Proverb, a fool's bolt is soon shot: see bolt n.1 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete or conclude action [verb (intransitive)] > have done all one can do to have shot one's bolt1577 a1100 Prudentius in Zeitschr. f. Deutsches Alterthum (1876) VIII. 38 Ða wæpna..ðe þæt yrre scet [L. miserat]. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 51 Sikerliche vre fa þe werreur of helle he scheot..ma quarreus to an ancre þenne to seouene & fifti lauedis iðe worlde. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 51 Earest [lechery] scheot þe arewen of þe licht echnen þe fleoð lichtliche forð ase flaa þet is iuiðered & stikeð iðere heorte. c1400 Rom. Rose 1800 The thridde arowe he [the God of Love] gan to shete,..Into myn herte he did avale. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 3/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I But if I may craue your patience, to tyme you see me shoote my bolt. 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 89 Many others haue shot forth the like bolts and censures, whereof this is the totall summe and substance. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila ix. iii. 127 Hope be thy Bowe, thy Hand Love, Faith the Shaft; Let Hope shoot Faith to God with Loves strong Draft. 1852 Househ. Words 5 577 [The winds] never cease to shoot at us their arrows barbed with the poison of rheum. 1901 Daily Express 28 Feb. 4/5 The home players had shot their bolt, and in thirty minutes the Birmingham team added two goals. < as lemmas |
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