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单词 to send to the devil
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to 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).
Quot. c1400 may represent a report (in Latin) of an earlier use of the English phrase.]
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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.
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