单词 | to outwear one's welcome |
释义 | > as lemmasto outwear one's welcome a. transitive. To wear away or down to nothing; to wear out or destroy by use; to exhaust. In later use frequently in to outwear one's welcome. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > cause to waste away > wear away or down > wear out forweara1240 perusec1475 outweara1542 overwear1591 to work out1609 frazzlea1825 a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) ccxvii. 10 Though..Change hath outworne the favour that I had. 1590 W. Vallans Tale Two Swannes 1 Time outweares eche creature that doth liue. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ii. sig. B7v Wicked Time that..doth..Workes of noblest wits to nought out weare . View more context for this quotation 1615 P. Gordon First Pt. Famous Hist. Bruce i. xv. l. 51 For he by proclamatioun great hath sworne..That Scotlands name by him shall be out worne He will distroy that nation in his Ire. 1631 T. Fuller Heavie Punishment xxxiii, in Davids Sinne sig. D5v Yea when that Brasse, that seemeth time to scorne, Shall be by all-devouring time out-worne, His name they'le beare in minde that are not borne. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 82 The Characters..were..wholly outworn by Time. 1711 Let. to Sacheverell 13 Subjects are insulted, and their Patience outworn. 1736 A. Hill tr. Voltaire Alzira i. 2 Divided Power is Power dis-arm'd. Outworn by Labour, and decay'd by Time. 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. iii. 6 The clay From whence the Medicean stamp's outworn. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxi. 7 A sad, machine-made tone, resembling that of a past friend whose friendship she had outworn. 1986 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 19 Nov. vi. 4/2 The one-liner laugh afforded by her Indian dancer (who turns out to be a stewardess) outwears its welcome. 2001 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 24 May b7 Alexander outwore his welcome giving a lengthy talk that seemed to last longer than ‘The Michael Richards Show’. < as lemmas |
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