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单词 to go the vole
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to go the vole
b. to go the vole, to run every risk in the hope of great gain; to try all shifts.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [verb (intransitive)] > run a risk or take one's chance
to take one's chancec1325
to take penancec1400
to throw at allc1400
to buy a pig (in Scotl. a cat) in a poke1546
to throw the helve after the hatchet1546
to set (up) one's rest1579
to give the adventure1607
to make a shaft or a bolt of ita1616
to run a fortune1627
to run for luck1799
to go the vole1816
chance1863
to chance one's arm1889
to take a chance or chances1902
gamble1919
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > risk oneself > risk everything
to throw at allc1400
to send the axe after the helvea1450
to throw the helve after the hatchet1546
to go the vole1816
to go for broke1935
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. iv. 86 Who is he!—why, he has gone the vole—has been soldier, ballad-singer, travelling tinker, and is now a beggar.
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 6 Nov. (1941) 129 He thinks Cadell's account must turn up trumps, and is for going the vole.
1895 Daily News 27 May 8/3 In the old phrase he ‘went the vole,’ he would be colossal, or a blank failure.
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