| 单词 | to nail to the barn door |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto nail to the barn door P4. to nail to the barn door [in allusion to the exhibiting of dead vermin as a deterrent.] : to reveal the true nature of; to expose and punish. Also (chiefly U.S.): to nail (up) a person's hide (to the wall) and variants. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > make accusation [phrase] to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handc1300 to lay the blame on1393 to give the wrong to?1473 to lay in (his) neckc1515 to cast (any one) in the teeth1526 to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526 to lay to (also cast in) a person's nose1526 to dash one in the teeth with (something)1530 call to or in coram1542 to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551 to throw (cast) a stone or stones (at)1568 to cast up1604 to nail to the barn door1894 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 33 Take my life, And nail me like a weasel on a grange For warning.] 1894 Notes & Queries 17 Feb. 130/2 There are two other uses of the word level which should be nailed to ‘N. & Q.'s’ barn door. 1937 ‘L. Short’ Brand of Empire (1940) ix. 115 Somebody is going to nail up his hide, Chris, and it won't be nice to see. 1943 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 22 July in War within & Without (1980) 378 The kind of woman who nails a man to a barn door, and not from cruelty—from fear, from insecurity, from wanting to possess, to have something to show. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 6 Mar. 18/6 When he went to Hollywood,..he nailed up their movieland hides in Lost in the Horse Latitudes, his best selling book. 1993 P. Muldoon Shining Brow 40 For the sake of a column inch that might nail him to the door, how long must we endure this? < as lemmas |
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