单词 | to put one's neck in a noose |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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.’ < as lemmas |
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