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单词 to make a hand
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to 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.
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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.
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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).
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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!
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