单词 | to make a hand |
释义 | > as lemmasto make a (also one's) hand(s) (a) to make a (also one's) hand(s): to make a profit (for oneself); to make a success of, to succeed in something. Frequently with modifying adjective, as fair, fine (often ironically), good, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > make profit by to make money1457 to make a (good, etc.) penny of, by, from1464 to make chevisance of1535 to make a (also one's) hand(s)1538 to make a good thing of (also out of)1800 1538 J. London in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 234 They mak ther handes by leesys, salys of wodde, and of ther plate. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie iii. 15/1 All is one with them, so as they may make their hand. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 68 Y' haue made a fine hand fellowes? 1669 W. Hacke Coll. Orig. Voy. (1699) III. 69 We should have made a better hand of them. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. App. 68/2 Through the Disadvantages of their Feet by the Snow, they could make no Hand on it. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iii. 43 The Farmer..concluding I soon must dye, resolved to make as good a Hand of me as he could. 1808 W. Windham Let. 21 Oct. in Speeches Parl. (1812) I. 98 I do not find that I make much hand (I should rather perhaps say much foot) in walking. 1855 Graham's Mag. Mar. 249/1 He made a fair hand at his business in the pantry and cabin. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 90 I don't suppose you'd have made much hand of them by yourself. 1924 G. A. England Vikings of Ice 189 Stop chin-waggin', now an' get to work. Ye won't make arr hand, just talkin'! 1998 G. Shortland Polygamy xv. 186 They were making a good hand of hacking through the tangle of language to get to Shakespeare's human heart. to make a hand (b) to make a hand of (also on, †with): to spoil, destroy, do away with. to make a hand: to wreak destruction. Now rare (chiefly English regional (northern and eastern) in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to undoc950 shendOE forfarea1000 endc1000 to do awayOE aquenchc1175 slayc1175 slayc1175 stathea1200 tinea1300 to-spilla1300 batec1300 bleschea1325 honisha1325 leesea1325 wastec1325 stanch1338 corrumpa1340 destroy1340 to put awayc1350 dissolvec1374 supplanta1382 to-shend1382 aneantizec1384 avoidc1384 to put outa1398 beshenda1400 swelta1400 amortizec1405 distract1413 consumec1425 shelfc1425 abroge1427 downthringc1430 kill1435 poisonc1450 defeat1474 perish1509 to blow away1523 abrogatea1529 to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529 dash?1529 to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531 put in the pot1531 wipea1538 extermine1539 fatec1540 peppera1550 disappoint1563 to put (also set) beside the saddle1563 to cut the throat of1565 to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568 to make a hand of (also on, with)1569 demolish1570 to break the neck of1576 to make shipwreck of1577 spoil1578 to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579 cipher1589 ruinate1590 to cut off by the shins1592 shipwreck1599 exterminate1605 finish1611 damnify1612 ravel1614 braina1616 stagger1629 unrivet1630 consummate1634 pulverizea1640 baffle1649 devil1652 to blow up1660 feague1668 shatter1683 cook1708 to die away1748 to prove fatal (to)1759 to knock up1764 to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834 to put the kibosh on1834 to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835 kibosh1841 to chaw up1843 cooper1851 to jack up1870 scuttle1888 to bugger up1891 jigger1895 torpedo1895 on the fritz1900 to put paid to1901 rot1908 down and out1916 scuppera1918 to put the skids under1918 stonker1919 liquidate1924 to screw up1933 cruel1934 to dig the grave of1934 pox1935 blow1936 to hit for six1937 to piss up1937 to dust off1938 zap1976 1569 J. Leslie Def. Honour Marie Quene of Scotl. f. 44v To dispatche and make a hande with the lorde Darley. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1224/1 They falling to the spoyle made a hande, and therwith departed. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H5 To giue them such medicines..as will soone make a hand of them. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. lx It makes a hand with it, and digesteth it presently. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 93 He [sc. Moses] had doubtless made a hand of me, but that one came by, and bid him forbear. View more context for this quotation 1737 Proc. Old Bailey 5 Oct. 146/1 I went with them into Marybone-fields, and there they laid Violence upon me. I said, pray don't make a Hand of me. 1756 Proc. Old Bailey 15 May 171/1 I know he has been several Times going to make a-hand of himself, to drown himself, &c. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. v. 70 Hungarian Majesty..attacks Seckendorf furiously..in mid-winter; and makes a terrible hand of him. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire I mun know about th' markets afore I sell: I dunna want to be made a hand on. 1896 S. R. Crockett Gray Man xx. 156 My lad, they have made a hand of you, but we will dowse them yet for that! < as lemmas |
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