单词 | to give a good name |
释义 | > as lemmasto give (also get) a good (also bad) name d. With indefinite article and modifying adjective: a reputation of a specified kind. Now frequently in to give (also get) a good (also bad) name.to give a dog an ill name and hang him: see dog n.1 Phrases 17. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [noun] > of a specified kind namea1382 renowna1400 repute1598 jacket1963 cred1982 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxii. 1 Betere is a good name than manye richessis. c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 3028 Ye been riche ynow..and ye myghten lightly in this wise gete yow a coueitous name. a1400 Prov. Wisdom (Bodl.) 6 in Anglia (1927) 51 221 (MED) Wele is hym þat haþe a good name. a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) 2 Kings vii. 9 I made to thee a greet name. c1500 Good Wife taught her Daughter (Trin. Cambr. R. 3.19 f. 212) (1948) xviii. 207 A good name many folde ys more worthe then golde. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vi. sig. Iii He that hath an yll name, is halfe hangd. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 98 He hath an excellent good name . View more context for this quotation 1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 176 Keip ordour..That ȝe may gett ane bettir name. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 208 A good Name, for good and faire dealing. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Hist. Rebellion (1703) II. viii. 431 The King's army..had left no good Name behind. 1738 J. Swift Let. to Pope 8 Aug. I have an ill name in the Post-office of both Kingdoms. 1845 C. Dickens Chimes ii. 74 I've got a bad name this way..and I'm not likely, I'm afeared, to get a better. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 473 If he were victorious, he would..bequeath a great name to posterity. 1865 Englishman's Mag. 220 Bookmaking now has got a bad name, or at any rate the term is used in a bad sense. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xxvi. 447 Now you'll go back and start all kinds of things and make a great name in the world; and we'll go on being friends. 1953 T. Morrison Stones of House V. iii. 243 You couldn't put up a memorial to a boy whose younger brother had just given the family and the college a bad name. 2001 Observer 29 Apr. (Life Suppl.) 49/1 This Sardinian blend of Nuragas and Vermentino is the sort of stuff that could give Frascati a good name. < as lemmas |
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