单词 | to send to the devil |
释义 | > as lemmasto send to the devil (b) to go to the devil and variants: to go to ruin, fail completely; to be damned. In the imperative and subjunctive, expressing anger or annoyance, and a desire to be rid of the person addressed; cf. to go to hell at hell n. and int. Phrases 3b. Similarly to send to the devil, etc. [Compare post-classical Latin vadere ad diabolum (c1400 or earlier, rare), Anglo-Norman s'en aller au diable to go to hell (13th cent. or earlier; Middle French, French s'en aller au diable to go far away, disappear), Middle French aller au diable to go to one's ruin, to go far away, disappear (15th cent.; French aller au diable to go far away, disappear). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end losec888 fallOE forlesea1225 perishc1275 spilla1300 to go to wreche13.. to go to the gatec1330 to go to lostc1374 miscarryc1387 quenchc1390 to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400 mischieve?a1400 tinea1400 to go to the devilc1405 bursta1450 untwindc1460 to make shipwreck1526 to go to (the) pot1531 to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547 wrake1570 wracka1586 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 to lie in the dusta1591 mischief1598 to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599 shipwreck1607 suffera1616 unravel1643 to fall off1684 tip (over) the perch1699 to do away with1769 to go to the dickens1833 collapse1838 to come (also go) a mucker1851 mucker1862 to go up1864 to go to squash1889 to go (to) stramash1910 to go for a burton1941 to meet one's Makera1978 c1400 Westm. Chron. in J. R. Lumby Polychron. Ranulphi Higden (1886) IX. 33 Excanduit rex [sc. Rich. II] et..dixit ei [sc. comiti Arundel]. ‘Quod si tu mihi imponas..vadas ad diabolum’.] c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 262 Thow seyst som folk desiren vs for richesse Somme for oure shap..Thus goth al to the deuel by thy tale. 1465 R. Calle in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 311 Ye must seke som other remedy..or..it schall go to the dwel and be distroyed. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iii. 102 Lete theym go to a hundred thousand devils! a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 14 Go to the dwill, and say I bad! 1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 178 All his Superstition and Hypocrisie, either is or should be gone to the devill. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 367 They curssed them betwene their teeth, saiyng: Get ye into England, or to the deuill. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 102 Ere they could strangle him, he sent three of them to the Deuill. 1703 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote IV. xxxv. 350 May you and your disenchanting go to the Devil. 1795 Ld. Auckland Let. 23 Jan. in Jrnl. & Corr. (1862) III. 283 This country is..very inclinable to leave the Continent to go to the devil in its own way. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto X lxvi. 86 When a man's country's going to the devil. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxxii Tom..having told her..to go to the devil. 1920 E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon ii. i. 85 If that's the case, you can go to the devil... You'll get your money tomorrow when I get back from town. 1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. (1992) xi. 192 Hewett found that while he had been away things had gone to the devil in many parts of the Niger. < as lemmas |
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