单词 | to keep one's end up |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep one's end up (also to keep or hold up one's end) f. to keep one's end up (also to keep or hold up one's end): to sustain one's part or bear one's share fully in an undertaking or performance. ΚΠ 1867 Baily's Monthly Mag. Aug. 291 Mr. Appleby kept up his end very seasonably. 1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People vi. 63 Nobody can say she hain't been a good yoke-fellow; she's kept up her end. 1887 A. W. Tourgée Button's Inn 131 She'd be worn out..trying to keep up her end [of the work]. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker i. 21 Do you think..that a man who can paint a thousand-dollar picture has not grit enough to keep his end up in the stock market? 1899 Westm. Gaz. 24 Nov. 5/1 Colonel Baden-Powell and his gallant garrison will have to keep their end up unassisted. a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Rolling Stones (1916) 90 The Diamond-Cross'll hold its end up with a man who'll look after its interests. 1926 P. C. Standing Anglo-Australian Cricket xxiii. 103 Ranjitsinhji, who scored 42 and not out 93 and was still ‘keeping up his end’ when time was called. 1928 Observer 18 Mar. 15/3 Not a single woman who appears..in this play is able to keep her end up after the cosmic announcer informs the inhabitants of the world that the world is about to end. 1970 ‘E. McGirr’ Death pays Wages v. 99 Piron had a certain enthusiasm for the Great Apes and was able to hold his end up, thanks to his good memory. < as lemmas |
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