单词 | to go out of one's way |
释义 | > as lemmasto go out of one's way (to do something) (vi) to go out of one's way (to do something): to make a special effort to do something; to do more than is required or called for. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > be willing [verb (intransitive)] willeOE reckeOE to make no courtesy1542 sussy1567 fadge1592 brook1604 to make no knobs1677 to go out of one's way (to do something)1680 1680 tr. J. Daillé Lively Picture of Lewis du Moulin 3 A very small matter did not only put him into a commotion, but into a rage: and made him go out of his way to be revenged.[No corresponding clause in the Latin original.] 1726 J. Oldmixon Crit. Hist. Eng. II. vi. 272 Mr. Echard goes out of his Way, to be thus Ceremonious, and worships the Cardinal without Occasion. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lxvi. 321 The culpable freedoms of persons, who, in what they went out of their way to say, must either be guilty of absurdity, meaning nothing; or, meaning something, of rudeness. 1835 N.Y. Mirror 9 May 353/2 He never went out of his way to oblige me. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. App. 645 One..hardly sees why any one should go out of his way to invent the tale. 1915 J. Turner Let. 19 Apr. in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 7 Do not, I beg of you, so put yourself out because a fellow goes out of his way to write a glowing acknowledgement. 1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness vi. 138 All these new-fangled doctors went out of their way to invent subconsciousness and kleptomania. 1988 N. Bissoondath Casual Brutality viii. 166 I took, for amusement, to asking directions of strangers; it was remarkable how people went out of their way to help. 2003 S. Brett Murder in Museum xxxiv. 280 That woman—whom he'd gone out of his way to help—had made him look a fool there. < as lemmas |
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