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单词 to put one's neck in a noose
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to put (also run) one's neck (or head) in a noose
b. to put (also run) one's neck (or head) in a noose, and variants: to marry. Esp. in later use also more generally: to act in a way likely to cause oneself difficulties or bring about one's downfall.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)]
weda1225
marrya1325
spousec1390
to make matrimonyc1400
intermarry1528
contract1530
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1535
to make a match1547
yoke1567
match1569
mate1589
to go to church (with a person)1600
to put one's neck in a noosec1600
paira1616
to join giblets1647
buckle1693
espouse1693
to change (alter) one's condition1712
to tie the knot1718
to marry out1727
to wedlock it1737
solemnize1748
forgather1768
unite1769
connubiate1814
conjugalize1823
connubialize1870
splice1874
to get hitched up1890
to hook up1903
c1600 [see sense 2a].
1615 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Cupids Revenge iv. sig. H4 I would laugh at you, and see you run your neck in the noose.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 91 To choose to thrust his Neck into the Marriage Noose!
1731 H. Fielding Welsh Opera Pref. p. ii The Characters are affecting, as they may be every Man's Lot who runs his Neck into the Marriage Noose.
a1783 A. E. Bleeker Posthumous Wks. (1793) 205 She's slipt her neck in marriage noose.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. xii. 266 Many an honest fellow has run his head into the noose that way.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. viii. 203 I..plainly intimated to you that it was my intention to put my old bachelor's neck into the sacred noose.
1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. iv. 63 I never married... The fact is, I never loved any one well enough to put myself into a noose for them.
1924 Amer. Mercury Mar. 308/2 Philadelphia politicians ask why Mayor Kendrick put his head into this sort of a moral noose.
1975 S. Selvon Moses Ascending 135 ‘We're getting married.’.. I could not stand aside and watch my friend put his head in the noose without some show of remonstration.
1991 W. Beechey Reluctant Samaritan (BNC) 11 ‘There is this’ I said putting my head firmly into the noose, ‘I won't let you down.’
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