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单词 to rear its head
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to rear its (ugly) head
e. transitive. figurative. to rear its (ugly) headand variants: to make an unwelcome appearance. See also raise v.1 Phrases 8.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > make an unwelcome appearance
to come on1592
to raise its (ugly) head1683
to rear its (ugly) head1771
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. IV. xliii. 199 The bishops were..so ardent in pursuit of temporal advantages, that every vice was rearing its head without controul.
1793 S. Horsley Serm. 5 A new form of Infidelity of late hath reared its hideous head.
1841 A. Lord Luther iii. 169 Carnage triumphant rears its ghastly head, And fell destruction riots o'er the dead!
1844 S. Smiles Hist. Irel. xxv. 256 The evil genius of monopoly now reared its ugly head in the land.
1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers II. viii. 124 Rebellion had already reared her hideous head within the [bishop's] palace.
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) vii. 96 Another problem reared its ugly head.
1966 B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 21 Scandal of even the mildest type failed to rear its head.
1997 Frank 13 Feb. 26/2 We're committed to truncheoning down opposition wherever it may rear its ugly head.
2005 R. G. Neuhauser Cosmic Deity 243 Clearly, we might think, evil was rearing its nasty head.
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