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单词 to run through the pikes
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to run through (also past) the pikes
P1. to pass the pikes (also to pass through the pikes): to run the gauntlet; (chiefly figurative) to pass through difficulties or dangers, to come through successfully. Similarly to run through (also past) the pikes, and variants. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > pass through danger
to pass the pikesa1555
to pass the picks1567
a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 289 Of al temptations this is the greatest, that god hath forgotten or will not helpe vs throughe the pykes, as they say.
1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 20 So mutch the harder it is like to go with me when..I must run thorouh the pikes.
1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 121 Making those who according to their laws have deserved it, sometimes pass the pikes [It. passar per le picche], and sometimes be shot to death.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 218/2 To run the pikes (of some termed running the gauntlett), that is to be slashed and whipt throwe two files of men, 60 or 100 deepe.
1712 W. Bates Acct. Life P. Henry in Wks. (1857) II. 720/1 None of them [had] past the pikes of that perilous distemper.
1785 W. Cowper Let. 30 Nov. (1981) II. 409 So far, therefore, I have passed the pikes. The Monthly Critics have not yet noticed me.
1848 Eng. Rev. Sept. 5 Hang such a one for disobedience!.. Let another be run through the pikes!
1897 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 12 162 The romance was allowed to pass the pikes of his friends' censorship.
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