单词 | to serve out and out |
释义 | > as lemmasto serve out and out a. transitive. To wound, maim, or otherwise physically harm (a person). In stronger sense: to kill (someone); originally in to serve out and out (cf. out and out adv.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > kill man [verb (transitive)] serve?1794 manslaughter1843 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound seriously forwoundOE through-woundc1175 undo1530 spoil1577 serve?1794 to fuck up1965 ?1794 [implied in: C. Dibdin Lovely Nan (sheet music) 4 When in the Bilboas I was penn'd, For serving of a worthless friend, And every creature from me ran.]. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 204 To serve a man, also sometimes signifies to maim, wound, or do him some bodily hurt, and to serve him out and out is to kill him. 2000 J. J. Connolly Layer Cake 154 He was doin life anyway for serving some geezer over a bird. < as lemmas |
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