| 单词 | to rights |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rights (m) to rights. extracted from rightn. (i) Also (rarely) to right, †to the rights. Formerly: †in a proper manner (obsolete). Subsequently: to or into a proper condition or order. In later use chiefly in to put (also bring, set) to rights. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [phrase] to rightsc1330 all (also everything) is gas and gaiters1839 (as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie1855 (as) right as rain1891 everything in the garden is lovely (also rosy)1898 she'll be right1947 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [phrase] on (also upon) righteOE by (good, etc.) rightc1330 to rightsc1330 well and truly1348 of very (due) right?a1366 to righta1382 at right1487 in one's way1691 the world > relative properties > order > in (proper) order [phrase] > into proper order to the rightsc1330 to point1481 at rightsa1641 into (to) trim1827 c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) l. 136 (MED) Þer come to me to fair kniȝtes, Wele y-armed al to riȝtes [a1500 Harl. at alle ryȝthis]. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 53 (MED) Of-saw he ful sone þat semliche child..cloþed..wiþ perrey & pellure pertelyche to þe riȝttes. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1632 (MED) Þemperour & eueri man were esed to riȝttes & haden..what þei wolde ȝerne. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Chron. Prol. l. 55 Þerfore I haue don þat I myȝte bryngen to riȝt [L. digererem] þe insolible lettyngis & þe wordis of names þe whiche þurȝ vice of writeris ben confoundid. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 4127 (MED) He mayntende þe lond to ryght [?a1400 Petyt to þe right]. 1472–3 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 1st Roll §59. m. 2 That all wolles..be sufficiauntly, trewly and indifferently pakked to rights, within the royalme of Englond. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke vi. 10 Then was his hande restored him to right, euen as whole as the other. c1600 (c1350) Alisaunder (Greaves) (1929) 1220 That bolde borou Byzance, þat buyld was to-rihtus, Was called syn..Constantinoble. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 43 Bring the ship to rights, that is, againe vnder saile as she was. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 30 Jan. (1970) III. 20 Imployed all the afternoon in my chamber, setting things and papers to rights. 1706 J. Logan in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1872) X. 146 When once puzzled he can with difficulty bring himself to rights. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lxxvi. 352 Sense of shame..may make rifled rank get up, and shake itself to rights. 1767 B. Franklin Let. 5 Apr. in Wks. (1887) IV. 23 I received the watch chain, which you say you send to be put to rights. 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1892) I. 109 How the good should be secured, and the ill brought to rights, was the difficulty. 1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. I. 55 Call in Mr. Maitland,..and he will speedily set all to right. 1859 J. W. Carlyle Let. 26 Sept. in Lett. & Memorials (1883) III. 8 A good sleep would have put me to rights. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxix. 216 The lists of voters, which had been carelessly..made up, were set to rights. 1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo xv. 144 She set to work to put her kitchen ‘to rights’. 1978 M. Lavin Tales Bective Bridge (rev. ed.) 40 It was going to take time to get the place to rights again. 1990 N. Gordimer My Son's Story 55 As she walked out she put up a hand to set a stray strand of her hair to rights. 2001 Daily Tel. 6 July 27/1 She trapezes across the world putting everything to rights. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb] soonc825 ratheeOE rathelyeOE rekeneOE rekenlyOE thereright971 anonOE forth ona1000 coflyc1000 ferlyc1000 radlyOE swiftlyc1000 unyoreOE yareOE at the forme (also first) wordOE nowOE shortlya1050 rightOE here-rightlOE right anonlOE anonc1175 forthrightc1175 forthwithalc1175 skeetc1175 swithc1175 with and withc1175 anon-rightc1225 anon-rights?c1225 belivec1225 lightly?c1225 quickly?c1225 tidelyc1225 fastlyc1275 hastilyc1275 i-radlichec1275 as soon asc1290 aright1297 bedenea1300 in little wevea1300 withoute(n dwella1300 alrightc1300 as fast (as)c1300 at firstc1300 in placec1300 in the placec1300 mididonec1300 outrightc1300 prestc1300 streck13.. titec1300 without delayc1300 that stounds1303 rada1325 readya1325 apacec1325 albedenec1330 as (also also) titec1330 as blivec1330 as line rightc1330 as straight as linec1330 in anec1330 in presentc1330 newlyc1330 suddenlyc1330 titelyc1330 yernec1330 as soon1340 prestly1340 streckly1340 swithly?1370 evenlya1375 redelya1375 redlya1375 rifelya1375 yeplya1375 at one blastc1380 fresha1382 ripelyc1384 presentc1385 presently1385 without arrestc1385 readilyc1390 in the twinkling of a looka1393 derflya1400 forwhya1400 skeetlya1400 straighta1400 swifta1400 maintenantc1400 out of handc1400 wightc1400 at a startc1405 immediately1420 incontinent1425 there and then1428 onenec1429 forwithc1430 downright?a1439 agatec1440 at a tricec1440 right forth1440 withouten wonec1440 whipc1460 forthwith1461 undelayed1470 incessantly1472 at a momentc1475 right nowc1475 synec1475 incontinently1484 promptly1490 in the nonce?a1500 uncontinent1506 on (upon, in) the instant1509 in short1513 at a clap1519 by and by1526 straightway1526 at a twitch1528 at the first chop1528 maintenantly1528 on a tricea1529 with a tricec1530 at once1531 belively1532 straightwaysa1533 short days1533 undelayedly1534 fro hand1535 indelayedly1535 straight forth1536 betimesc1540 livelyc1540 upononc1540 suddenly1544 at one (or a) dash?1550 at (the) first dash?1550 instantly1552 forth of hand1564 upon the nines1568 on the nail1569 at (also in, with) a thoughtc1572 indilately1572 summarily1578 at one (a) chop1581 amain1587 straightwise1588 extempore1593 presto1598 upon the place1600 directly1604 instant1604 just now1606 with a siserary1607 promiscuously1609 at (in) one (an) instant1611 on (also upon) the momenta1616 at (formerly also on or upon) sight1617 hand to fist1634 fastisha1650 nextly1657 to rights1663 straightaway1663 slap1672 at first bolt1676 point-blank1679 in point1680 offhand1686 instanter1688 sonica1688 flush1701 like a thought1720 in a crack1725 momentary1725 bumbye1727 clacka1734 plumba1734 right away1734 momentarily1739 momentaneously1753 in a snap1768 right off1771 straight an end1778 abruptedly1784 in a whistle1784 slap-bang1785 bang?1795 right off the reel1798 in a whiff1800 in a flash1801 like a shot1809 momently1812 in a brace or couple of shakes1816 in a gird1825 (all) in a rush1829 in (also at, on) short (also quick) order1830 straightly1830 toot sweetc1830 in two twos1838 rectly1843 quick-stick1844 short metre1848 right1849 at the drop of a (occasionally the) hat1854 off the hooks1860 quicksticks1860 straight off1873 bang off1886 away1887 in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1890 ek dum1895 tout de suite1895 bung1899 one time1899 prompt1910 yesterday1911 in two ups1934 presto changeo1946 now-now1966 presto change1987 the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > altogether, entirely, or completely bedenec1175 all outc1300 downrightc1330 downrightsc1330 at alla1375 whole together1551 in all sorts1559 right out1578 clear1600 neck and heels1647 to rights1663 head over ears1774 neck and crop1791 fair and square1870 in total1965 1663 S. Pepys Diary 8 June (1971) IV. 177 Mr. Coventry and us two did discourse with the Duke a little.., and so to rights home again. 1673 J. Dryden Amboyna iii. 33 The Vessel Rifl'd, and the rich Hould rummag'd, they sink it down to rights. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 390 The King..ordered him to be carried to rights, to the Tower. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 134 The whole Tract..sinks down to rights into the Abyss underneath. 1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus v. 303 When Indigent People are ready..to suffer any Thing rather than die to Rights. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 151 The Hulk.., by reason of many Breaches.., sunk to rights. 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 34 The poor fellow, in a most piteous condition, and his heart sinking to rights under the melancholy notion he had of it. 1835 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major (new ed.) 129 So to rights the express got back, and brought a letter. 1848 Knickerbocker 31 178 I'm going to start a dairy to-rights. (iii) slang (originally U.S.). In the context of apprehending a criminal: with no chance of escape or acquittal; red-handed, in the act.Frequently to get (a person) (dead or bang) to rights: see also dead to rights at dead adv. 2b and bang to rights at bang v.1 9. ΚΠ 1843 Proc. Old Bailey 3 July 18 Some person in the street hallooed out, ‘Jem, what is the matter?’—Elliott said, ‘They have got us all to rights, they have got eleven in the trap.’ 1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 25 Dead to rights, positively guilty, and no way of getting clear. 1864 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) in Comments on Etymol. (1987) Dec. 18 He..found himself in the grab of a detective, who had..only waited for the opportunity of ‘collaring’ him ‘to rights’. 1881 A. Trumble Slang Dict. N.Y., London & Paris 36/2 To rights. The evidence is conclusive enough to convict. 1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest xiii. 132 I played your side when he tried to frame you. This time he's got you copped to rights. 1983 D. Francis Danger (1984) xv. 208 They finally gave their names, once they saw we'd got them to rights. 2002 P. King & R. King New Kings' Tales 68 I've got you to rights, Flasher... You've nicked these from the Governor's safe. < as lemmas |
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