单词 | to go one's death |
释义 | > as lemmasto go one's death P13. U.S. slang. to go one's death: (with on, upon) to give or risk everything (in doing something or in order to gain something). Also with infinitive. Now rare. ΚΠ 1833 D. Crockett Sketches 173 You think they don't go their death upon a jig, but they do. 1833 D. Crockett Sketches 74 My little boys at home will go their death to support my election. 1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 218 I'll go my death upon you at the shooting match. 1868 Scott's Monthly Mag. Oct. 663/1 She would go her death to keep up with our set. 1878 Scribner's Monthly 15 400/1 The consulship at Rio Janeiro is vacant, and being worth $6,000, he is moved to ‘go his death on Rio’. 1977 R. Coover Public Burning 7 Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish, I'm in fer a fight, I'll go my death on a fight. < as lemmas |
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