单词 | to rub on |
释义 | > as lemmasto rub on to rub on intransitive. figurative = to rub along. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist [verb (intransitive)] continuec1340 perseverec1380 stick1447 to rub on1469 to stick unto ——1529 persist1531 to make it tougha1549 whilea1617 subsist1632 to rub along1668 let the world rub1677 dog1692 wade1714 to stem one's course1826 to stick in1853 to hang on1860 to worry along1871 to stay the course1885 slug1943 to slug it out1943 to bash on1950 to soldier on1954 to keep on trucking1972 1469 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 551 I wyll rubbe on as longe as I maye bothe wyth myn owne and othyr menys. 1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hippolytus ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 63 Let him rubbe on in misery whom destny doth constrayne. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Passer He hath goods enow to rub on, or to serue his turne, with. 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. ix. 329 Whosoever shall..teach us the Art to rub on with a doubting Conscience, has paved a broad Causway for..his Holiness. 1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 250 Most People are supinely content..to rub on in a Sickly Condition. a1777 S. Foote Capuchin (1778) i. 108 We be contented, Sir Harry, to rub on in our rust. 1846 J. G. Lockhart in Croker Papers 16 Dec. (1884) III [They] thought Government would rub on with this Parliament till August. 1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am xvii I hope we shall always manage to rub on somehow. 1894 T. Hardy Life's Little Ironies 192 Well, as for Longpuddle, we rub on there much as usual. 1913 F. E. Dugdale Let. 3 Dec. in Lett. E. & F. Hardy (1996) 88 It is only for his sake that I manage to rub on from day to day. < as lemmas |
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