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单词 to one's face, teeth
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to 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.
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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.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 59 Euen to the eyes of Richard, Gaue him defyance. View more context for this quotation1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 55 I liue and tell him to his teeth Thus didst thou. View more context for this quotationa1751 J. Elton in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea (1753) I. iv. 19 We instantly stood to our arms.1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. ii. 25 He had taken his part boldly and stood to it manfully.1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 54 219 They will find everything ready to their hands.
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