| 单词 | to go scot-free |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go (also get off, escape, etc.) scot-free a. Without being punished; without suffering injury or harm. Chiefly predicative or as complement, esp. in to go (also get off, escape, etc.) scot-free.In origin probably an extended use of sense 2, although first recorded slightly earlier. Π 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. H1 Is there eny grett differynge Bitwene theft and tythe gaderynge..? Uery litell,..Savynge that theves are corrected, And tythe gaderers go scott fre. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 93 Daniell scaped scotchfree by Gods prouidence. 1657 R. Sanderson 14 Serm. Pref. §4 The Papists,..escaping in the mean while Scot-free. 1666 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 73 Oxford escaped scot fre of the plague. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 34 She should not, for all the Trouble she has cost you, go away scot-free. 1789 Oracle 4 July There is no doubt, from the Major's pointed and logical perseverance, but Mr. Hastings will come off Scot-free. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. xi. 227 Do as much for this fellow, and thou shalt pass scot-free. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xiv. 45 The sporting inhabitants thereof preferred the money-griping propensities of a certain Baronet..to the scot-free sport with the frigid civilities of the noble Earl. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. xiii. 215 When some notorious offender has got off scot free. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xvi. 273 This miserable woman has only confessed bairnly faults, and on that he'll ride off scot free. 1954 A. White Beyond Glass i. ii. 25 But that's barbarous! He gets off scot free and she has to be dragged through the mud. 1982 A. Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant (1983) v. 149 It was so typical: Ezra the golden boy, everybody's favorite, tootling down the streets scot-free. 2000 Dawn (Karachi) 16 Apr. 12/3 The concept of blood money..allows the murderer to go scot free. < as lemmas |
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