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单词 to take by the top
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to take by the top
a. to take by the top and variants: to seize (a person) by the hair; to take hold (of a person or animal) violently or forcibly. Also figurative: to seize (an opportunity, moment, etc.); to make the most of (cf. to take occasion by the foretop at foretop n. 2b). Obsolete.
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c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 684 (MED) Þe reue..rende hise claðes & toc him seolf bi þe top.
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 28 Margarte..toc him [sc. the dragon] bi þet eateliche top.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 344 Bi þone toppe [c1300 Otho bi þe coppe] he hine nom al-swa he hine walde of-slean.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 5619 He..hente þis lof bi þe top & fram þe bord him drou.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Dan. xiv. 35 The aungel of the Lord took hym bi his top [E.V. c1384 Douce 369(2) in the poll of hym], and bar hym bi the heer of his heed.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 40 Let's take the instant by the forward top: For we are old. View more context for this quotation
1643 R. Baillie Let. 22 Sept. (1841) II. 88 To take that occasion by the tope to banish altogether church-buriall from among us.
1884 D. Grant Lays & Legends of North 21 Eppie got him by the tap..Quo' Davit then,..‘Lat go my puckle hair’.
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