| 单词 | to run out of breath |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run (a person or thing) out of breath (b) to run (a person or thing) out of breath: to tire (a person) out, esp. with running or other physical activity. Frequently figurative: to exhaust (a person or thing). Now rare. ΚΠ 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. M.iii I thinke it better to rest in the midway, then run my selfe out of breath, & get no goale. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. i. 57 You run this humor out of breath . View more context for this quotation 1756 Ess. on Times 53 They had run their resentment out of breath, or evaporated it upon that pitiful object. 1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ xi. 488 This..is the age of hurry-skurry. We have all run ourselves out of breath. 2017 Springfield News-Sun (Ohio) (Nexis) 20 May I read this series of long sentences that should have run me out of breath before I reached the end but never did. < as lemmas |
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