| 单词 | to run off one's legs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run off one's legs (also feet) (b) to run off one's legs (also feet): to work to the point of exhaustion, to make a great effort; (sometimes, esp. in early use) spec. to exhaust oneself by running. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (reflexive)] strain1377 overwork1530 overtire1558 toil1560 spend1594 overtask1628 waste1630 unbowel1647 to run off one's legs (also feet)1666 overexert1817 muck1819 tew1825 overdo1858 to burn out, forth1955 1666 F. Howgill Oaths no Gospel Ordinance 62 He hath ravelled out and spun out his threed so long, that he often runs off his legs. 1786 R. E. Raspe Baron Munchausen's Narr. 29 He ran so fast, so much, and so long in my service, that he actually ran off his legs. 1852 W. G. Simms As Good as Comedy iv. 65 No man shall bluff me off the track, though the horse runs off her legs. 1877 Potter's Amer. Monthly June 445/1 She that every young man in the parish would run off his legs to get for a wife. 1904 Cosmopolitan Apr. 656/1 Schwartz ran off his legs, and he learned by heart all the deeds of Jesus and Mary and the great miracle with the Holy Ghost, which he does not believe. 1961 tr. Diary in T. Schieder Fate Germans in Hungary II. 204 Mici too is running off her legs on behalf of her husband. 1994 V. Fraser in S. Hawthorn & R. Klein Austral. for Women 107 We had to look at whether we should keep doing it, making ourselves exhausted... Because that was what was happening, we were running off our feet. < as lemmas |
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