单词 | to make no bones about |
释义 | > as lemmasto make no bones about (ii) to make bones about (formerly also at, in, of, to do) and variants: to find objections or obstacles to (an action, undertaking, etc.); to feel or show hesitation or reluctance in doing or saying something. Chiefly in negative constructions, esp. in to make no bones about (and variants).Quot. 1520 may instead show an error for bond or bonde: cf. bond n.1 8a and band n.1 10. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > hesitate or scruple at [verb (transitive)] to make bones of1520 to stick at ——1525 scotch1601 fear1603 to strain at1609 to stand at ——1632 1520 Dyetary Ghostly Helthe sig. a.vv Beware also ye make no bande ne bone of nombre of psalmes or prayers, but vse them for the tyme that ye haue pleasure and deuocyon in them. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke i. f. 28 He made no manier bones ne stickyng, but went in hande to offer up his only son Isaac. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxiii. 9) i. f. 275v/2 As for mans hand, they make no bones at it. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 325 What matter soever is intreated of, they never make bones in it. 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 113 Hee..makes no bone To swear by God (for hee beleeues ther's none). 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. ii. 40 The Pope makes no bones to break..the Decrees. 1725 Weekly Jrnl. 9 Jan. It would set the People together by the Ears, and keep them clashing and mistrusting one another, while the French King should gain Flanders, and then he would make no Bones of getting England too. 1798 G. Colman Heir at Law i. i Most of your proud folks make no bones of tippling with a tallow-chandler, in his back-room, on a melting day. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxvi. 263 Do you think that the Government or the Opposition would make any bones about accepting the seat if he offered it to them? 1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere I. 51 Elizabeth was thus making huge bones of sending some £7000 over for the general purposes of the government in Ireland. 1908 Lady's Realm 24 289/2 As I don't believe in making bones about a small thing, I'll charge you nothing. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Sept. 256/1 On the other hand, Dr. Libby makes no bones about the catastrophe of a nuclear war. 2010 V. H. Mayne Whom God Loves i. 35 Despite his total lack of driving skills, Bud decided this was no time to be making bones about it. < as lemmas |
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