单词 | to make life a misery |
释义 | > as lemmasto make (someone's) life a misery P3. to make (someone's) life a misery: to upset or annoy someone continually. ΚΠ 1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine 205 You've been doing your level best to make life a misery to me since we left home.] 1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xvii. 231 The lives of these women, already far advanced, were made a misery, on the one hand by the Matron, who treated them with unremitting despotism, and on the other by the nurses who repaid them with continual veiled mockery. 1968 Daily Tel. 29 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 66/4 Those scavenging Italian street photographers whose sole purpose appears to be to make every film celebrity's life a misery. 1989 F. Saunders-Veness Oh! Sister (BNC) 46 A certain section of the nation had tried to make Winston's life a misery by begging for a second front. < as lemmas |
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