| 单词 | to put to every corner of the saddle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put (a person) to every corner (also seat) of the saddle P6. Scottish. to seek all the seats (also corners) of the saddle and variants: to try every expedient; to go to extreme lengths. to put (a person) to every corner (also seat) of the saddleand variants: to put (a person) in a difficult or perplexing position; to cause (a person) to go to extreme lengths or to try every expedient. Now rare. ΚΠ 1658 R. Moray Lett. to Earl of Kincardine (2007) 187 Neither will I be ill to you for meddling more with physick, wherin to restrain myself, let me tell you, I find I am fain to search all the corners of my saddle. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 11 Leaps to his Horse, and on he went, To take and give the Complement: While hips excoreat, made him swadle Through all the corners of the Sadle.] a1745 W. Meston tr. Ovid Metamorphosis in Poet. Wks. (1767) 124 They make myself, who am more able Than thou, seek all the seats i' th' saddle. 1825 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) VI. 24 I have the dregs of Abbotsford House to pay for..so I must look for some months to be put to every corner of my saddle. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) To put one to a' the seats o' the Saddle, to nonplus, to gravel one; obviously borrowed from the uneasy sensations of one who feels his seat on horseback too hard for him. 1893 J. C. Watt John Inglis iv. 56 It caused many mediocre men to seek all the seats of the saddle in order to ride in the race. < as lemmas |
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