| 单词 | to keep a coil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep a coil a. to keep a coil: to keep up a disturbance; make a fuss, bustle, much ado. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active > bustle > fuss or make a fuss nytelc1400 to make a matter1549 to keep a coil1568 squatter1593 fiddle-faddle1633 to play hell (with)1750 fuss1792 to play hell and Tommy1825 piggle1836 palavera1840 to make a time1844 to make a time1844 friggle1848 fussify1868 to make a production of (or out of)1941 1568 T. Howell Newe Sonets (1879) 147 Dyd flee from fredom to the courte, Where Venus only keepes the coyle. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1029/2 They kept such a coile against the Abbot and Monks, to haue certeine auncient Charters deliuered them. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. ix. 152 Proclus and Simplicius keepe a great coyle in mayntenance of the eternitie of the world. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grabuger, to keepe a foule coyle, to make a great stirre, or monstrous hurlyburly. 1669 T. Shadwell Royal Shepherdess iv. 73 They all keep such a coile when they come to die. 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. 35 Still a coil the grasshopper did keep. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 130 And such sad Coil with Words of Vengeance kept, That our best Sleepers started as they slept. < as lemmas |
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