单词 | to one's face, teeth |
释义 | > as lemmasto one's face, teeth b. Expressing contiguity or close proximity: By, beside. Also figurative or with additional implication, as in to one's face, teeth, etc. = ‘in presence and defiance of’ (Schmidt Shaks. Lex.): cf. A. 25b, and see face n. Phrases 4c, tooth n.; to hand: see hand n. Phrases 1k; to stand to one's post, guns, etc.: see stand v. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > near to [preposition] > next to or beside nexteOE toc1000 alongstc1180 besidesc1200 besidec1275 next handa1400 hard byc1450 juxta1860 upsides1883 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > defiance to one's face, teethc1000 in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230 in the teeth1297 maugre a person's head (also beard, cheeks, eyes, heart, neck, teeth, will, etc.)c1325 maugre his nosec1325 despitec1380 in (the) maugre (of)c1450 in spite of (also maugre) a person's beard?1537 in the teeth of1792 malgré lui1796 c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxxi. 629 He sæt to þam casere. c1400 Rom. Rose 6355 To Ioly folk I enhabite. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 279 The suburbis..ligging to the same citees. 1614 Bp. J. King Vitis Palatina 30 They that walke side to side, and cheeke to cheeke. 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 202 The Clerk bids the Keeper set the Prisoners..to the Bar. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 59 I sit down to table; but I cannot eat. < as lemmas |
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