单词 | to have the heart |
释义 | > as lemmasto have the heart (a) to have the heart: to be sufficiently courageous, resolute, (in later use) unsympathetic, etc. (to do something); (sometimes more generally) to have sufficient inclination or enthusiasm. In later use chiefly in negative and interrogative contexts. Cf. stomach n. 5b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > pluck up courage [verb] findOE to take (in early use nim) heartc1275 to have the heartc1300 to hent one's heartc1325 to pull upa1393 to fang upa1400 pluckc1400 to take courage1490 to take heart of grace (and variants)c1520 to lift up one's heart, mind, soul1535 to get (also gather, keep, etc.) heart of grace1581 hearten1587 to pluck up one's courage1660 flesh1695 pluck up courage1726 to pick up1735 to call forth1802 to pluck up1827 to muster up1893 c1300 St. Bartholomew (Laud) l. 248 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 374 Riȝt ase men huyldeth a ded oxe, men hulden him al-liue. Alas, hou miȝten huy habben þe heorte? a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11805 (MED) Hu had he hert to sced þair blod? 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) iv. xxxviii. 63 I am soo full of sorow, and of heuynes, that I haue no herte to speke to yow. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 16 Curst be the heart that had the heart to doe it. View more context for this quotation 1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 46 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) The Turks being discouraged..had not the heart to defend themselves. 1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 30 One cannot have the Heart to be angry at this judicious Observer. 1780 F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) I. 427 I had no heart to leave..Mr. Thrale in a state so precarious. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xlviii. 214 Have you the heart to say this of your own son, unnatural mother! 1886 Ld. Tennyson Promise of May iii, in Locksley Hall 173 I hadn't the heart or face to do it. 1920 C. Carswell Open Door! i. i. 11 Though he was now ten, his mother had not yet had the heart to cut the fair effeminate ringlets which reach the collar of his sailor suit. 1959 F. Astaire Steps in Time (1960) vi. 42 If they'll promise to work I'll take them on but they must have the heart, the incentive, the will to practice and do as I say. 1962 A. White Diary 14 Jan. (1993) ii. 64 I meant to ‘have a word’ with E.A.C. about his inhabiting so much of the flat,..[but] I didn't have the heart. 2007 R. Leleux Mem. Beautiful Boy (2009) xii. 152 He'd say some perfectly exasperating thing, like someday we'd adopt children, and did I really have the heart to deny them a grandfather? < as lemmas |
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