| 单词 | to give hell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give (a person) hell f. to give (a person) hell: (a) to give (a person) an unpleasant time, to make (a person) suffer; (b) to give (a person) one's best effort. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > severely visita1382 to-punisha1400 overpunisha1639 to give (a person) hell1836 to give a person what for1852 slate1854 to give it in the neck1881 to come down1888 bean1910 scrub1911 cane1925 to gie (or give) (someone) laldy1935 1836 H. R. Howard Hist. Virgil A. Stewart x. 140 When we get him back into the Mississippi morass we will give him hell. 1863 O. W. Norton Army Lett. (1903) 161 We have met the enemy and given them hell. a1917 E. A. Mackintosh War, the Liberator (1918) 141 You swine, I'll give you hell for this. 1952 Independent (Long Beach, Calif.) 8 Oct. 2/6 The crowd cheered ‘give them hell, John.’ 1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 May b1 Mr. Blevins wrote of how proud he was and said they should ‘give 'em hell’. 2006 Irish Times (Nexis) 19 Aug. 16 After a night of dancing their high heels are giving them hell on the walk home. < as lemmas |
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