单词 | to pare too close |
释义 | > as lemmasto pare too close (also near) d. transitive. to pare to (also beyond, etc.) the quick: to cut away the skin, or other superficial layer, so deeply as to reach the live or sensitive parts beneath; to pare so as to hurt. Similarly to pare too close (also near). Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > chafe or excoriate flayc1250 to-shell1377 gallc1440 excoriate1497 chafe1526 to pare to (also beyond, etc.) the quick1538 spur-galla1555 gald1555 raw1593 begall1597 rub1618 rind1893 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Resecare ad viuum, to pare to the quicke, to touche the quicke in a mater. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 1v Great fines, so nere did pare me. ?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads Pref. sig. A4v I intreate my..Reader; that all things to the quicke he will not pare. 1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 17 Whom they pare to the quick, and thereby raise their Revenues. 1709 J. Swift Let. conc. Sacramental Test 22 His Claws pared to the Quick. 1791 H. More Estimate Relig. Fashionable World 49 The prevailing mode of living has pared real hospitality to the very quick. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 296 The smiths..proceed at once to ‘pare the corn out to the quick, till the blood starts’. 1918 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Feb. 133/1 Men will have to work so hard to restore..manufacture, and trade, that liberal effort will perhaps be pared beyond the quick. 1925 W. G. L. Taylor Saddle Horse i. 81 The hoof is pared down to the quick in streaks, leaving only enough for the animal to stand on. 1990 Chicago Tribune 3 Oct. 3 Other tax increases could be necessary if budget-cutting pares too close to the bone of social programs. < as lemmas |
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