| 单词 | to get the overhand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get (also have, etc.) the overhand The upper hand; mastery, victory, superiority. Chiefly in to get (also have, etc.) the overhand. Also with of. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] overhandc1175 masteryc1225 gree1320 betc1330 pricea1350 advantagea1393 overmasterya1400 voicea1400 betterc1405 higherc1450 prevaila1460 superiority1548 mastership1573 prevalence1604 eminence1609 privilegea1616 prevalency1623 upper fortunea1625 whipping-hand1682 whip hand1806 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5458 To winnenn oferrhannd off uss. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 647 Brutus hefde þa ouere hond. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 1242 Guendoleine hæfde þa vfere [c1300 ouere] hond. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 1840 (MED) Þe erl cole slou þen king, & þo he adde þun ouer hond. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 5152 (MED) Þe king of west sex adde euere þe ouere hond. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) Orig. draft l. 566 I ne schal neuere be heuene kyng wende Or ich haue þe ouer [altered to heȝere] hand. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2508 Fra þai had geten þe ouer-hand. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 129 (MED) He will send þam þe ouerhand of þaire enmys. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 13710 (MED) Had þou schott all þies, þou suld haue had lorschep in land And ouer comyn all þin enmyse..And now by cause þou schott bot thryse, bot thre tyms þou getes þe ouerhand. 1524 T. Wolsey Let. to Pace in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. xii. 25 If he may have an overhande in Italy. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hosea iv. 2 Theft and aduoutry haue gotten the ouerhande. 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 220 Eyther of them tryste the ouerhande to gette. 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 50 (margin) That the wicket hes the vuir hand, it is the scurge of God. 1570 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxiii. 90 The word of God for euer sall preuaill, And als his Kirk sall haue the ouer hand. 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 368 [They] had sundrie ouerhands of the Northumbrian Danes. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Ouer The uvir hand, the upper hand. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To have the over-hand’, to obtain the mastery. 1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield 42 He's got t'uvver hand of him. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 205/1 Overhand,..the upper hand..I'll get the overhand of it yet. < as lemmas |
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