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单词 to send to the dogs
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to send (or throw, †cast, etc.) to the dogs
a. to send (or throw, †cast, etc.) to the dogs: to send to destruction or ruin; to throw out, discard as worthless.
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1556 J. Ponet Shorte Treat. Politike Power sig. A viii How muche more sharpely ought he to be punished, and of all men to be abhorred (yea cast to the dogges) that deceaueth a hole Realme?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 49 Throw Physicke to the Dogs, Ile none of it. View more context for this quotation
1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 4 Had H—wl—y's fortune layn in Hops and Hogs, scarce H—wl—y's self had sent it to the dogs?
1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) vii. iv. 396 He..threw diplomacy to the dogs.
1983 J. Singer tr. I. B. Singer Penitent ii. xii. 118 In America, young people look upon the older person as someone to be thrown to the dogs.
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