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单词 to put to a plunge
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to put to a plunge
5. figurative. The point at which a person is precipitated into trouble, difficulty, or danger; a critical situation, a strait; a dilemma. Esp. in to put to a plunge and variants. Now rare (English regional (midlands) in later use).
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > sudden, extreme, or emergency
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emergencea1676
emergementa1734
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crisis1848
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1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxiiii. f. 205 I am put to a plunge: as moche as I am worthe.
1535 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) i. 415 When a person hath deserued a great open shame, & is broght euen to the plunge of the matter, and yet by the meanes of helpe he is deliuered.
1553 tr. Short Catech. f. lxiiv We beseech our Father, that he bring us into no such hard escape and peril, nor leave us in the very plunge of danger.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 900/2 Or if it bee the deuill that worketh by the inchaunters hands, will not men say that God is put to his plunges to ouercome Satan?
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Breviaire Il est au bout de son breviaire, he is at a plunge, or nonplus; he hath no more to say.
a1657 H. Cholmley Mem. (1870) 28 When I was in the greatest plunge for money.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 264 The Captain demanding payment of his Money, put the Prince to a great plunge.
1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. vi. vi. 670 As he had no great Stock of Argument,..at a Plunge any Thing would be acceptable that came to his Relief.
a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) iii. i. 239 At length, after various plunges and various escapes, it [sc. the Eastern empire] was totally annihilated in the fifteenth century.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 125 Plunge, a strait, a difficulty. ‘I was put to a plunge’.
1884 R. Lawson Upton-on-Severn Words & Phrases Plunge, a falling into, or going under trouble or sickness.
a1903 A. Bubb in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 560/2 [Gloucestershire] Plunge [a strait, difficulty].
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