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单词 to pull one's socks up
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to pull one's socks up
(b) Slang and colloquial phrases: to turn a sock; in one's socks, as a condition of measurement of stature; = to stand in one's stockings at stocking n.2 5a (cf. in one's shoes at shoe n. 2c); to knock the socks off (someone), and variants (U.S.): to beat thoroughly, to trounce; similarly to rot the socks off; to pull one's socks up: to make an effort, to pull oneself together; to put a sock in it: to stop speaking or making a noise, to shut up; to ‘stop it’; usually in imperative; old socks (originally North American): a familiar form of address.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > [adverb] > as condition of measurement of height
in one's socksa1529
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > make effort to recover oneself
to pull, shake oneself togethera1400
to pull one's socks upa1529
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking
to make up one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
blina1300
dumba1300
leavea1375
to put a sock in ita1529
hush1548
silence1551
stay1551
stow1567
stop1579
to save one's breath (also wind)1605
tace1697
stubble it!1699
shut your trap!1796
to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808
stubble your whids!1830
to shut up1840
to dry up1853
pawl1867
subside1872
to pipe down1876
to shut (one's) head, face1876
shurrup1893
to shut off1896
clam1916
dry1934
shtum1958
to oyster up1973
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > lose the voice [verb (intransitive)] > not utter
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275
peacec1395
muffa1500
to put a sock in ita1529
whista1547
to say not muff1652
to hold one's whisht1786
to shut (one's) pan1799
to shut up1840
to hold one's whistc1874
to shut (one's) head, face1876
to wrap up1943
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly
threshc1384
to knock the socks offa1529
thump1597
thrash1609
thwacka1616
capot1649
to beat to snuff1819
to knock into a cocked hat1830
to —— (the) hell out of1833
sledgehammer1834
rout1835
whop1836
skin1838
whip-saw1842
to knock (the) spots off1850
to make mincemeat of1853
to mop (up) the floor with1875
to beat pointless1877
to lick into fits1879
to take apart1880
to knock out1883
wax1884
contund1885
to give (a person) fits1885
to wipe the floor with1887
flatten1892
to knock (someone) for six1902
slaughter1903
slather1910
to hit for six1937
hammer1948
whomp1952
bulldozer1954
zilch1957
shred1966
tank1973
slam-dunk1975
beast1977
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Diiii Trymme at her tayle or a man can turne a socke.
?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Cviijv They maye go turne a socke.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 2 He..stood four feet six inches and three-quarters in his socks.1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 311 The socks which the women there knit.1913 T. H. S. Escott Anthony Trollope x. 191 Those who knew Anthony Trollope in the flesh saw in him one who, at his prime, had stood some six feet in his socks.1927 in C. J. Finger Frontier Ballads 69 This Floyd stood six feet in his socks and passed for mighty fly.1977 Horse & Hound 14 Jan. 40/3 (advt.) 11 hands in his socks... Smart, free-moving pony.1845 C. Beecher Let. in M. Rugoff Beechers (1981) xi. 212 ‘Beecher you must put in your best licks today!’ ‘You must knock the socks off those Old School folks!’ And so they stood by to see me fight.1964 J. Porter Dover One vi. 65 This thick, fruity beverage..was guaranteed by one revolting old boozer as being strong enough to rot the socks off you.1979 Arizona Daily Star 22 July D3/1 ‘Trucks have been beating our socks off,’ said..a spokesman for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Chicago. ‘But now we have a chance to get some of the business back.’1893 H. F. McLelland Jack & Beanstalk 31 Pull up your socks! I'll see naught goes wrong with you.1906 Daily Mail 14 Feb. 6/6 The ‘smart set’ have got hold of another neat expression. ‘You must pull your socks up’ is the latest form of saying ‘Never mind’, or ‘Pull yourself together’.1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xi. 78 Pull your socks up, Ah Chee, an' think of something.1924 H. A. Vachell Quinney's Adventures 269 Metaphorically an Irish-American ‘pulled up his socks’.1936 M. Kennedy Together & Apart iv. 294 There's hope for you if you pull your socks up.1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 11 Nov. 17/5 The dismissal was unfair because Mr. Collier had not been given adequate warning and a chance ‘to pull his socks up’ before dismissal.1919 Athenæum 8 Aug. 729/2 The expression ‘Put a sock in it’, meaning ‘Leave off talking, singing or shouting’.1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words s.v. ‘Shut up, put a sock into it.’1930 J. B. Priestley Good Companions i. vi. 232 Two or three members of his audience laughed, but a young man in a green cloth cap was very annoyed. ‘Oh, put a sock in it,’ he said to the ripe gentleman, who immediately and very loudly asked him what he meant by it.1932 R. C. Ashby Plot against Widow xxi. 172 ‘Oh, put a sock in it!’ she invited him scornfully.1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine vi. 243 Aw, put a sock in it. Well, I'm going to sleep, chaps, and if you wake me again, the fellow that does it I'll slip him thirteen inches of saltpetre.1944 ‘N. Shute’ Pastoral v. 107 ‘For Christ's sake put a sock in it,’ he had said..‘and tell them I want an ambulance down here.’1978 A. Price '44 Vintage vi. 69 He..drew his finger across his throat, grinning horribly. ‘Put a sock in it, Taf,’ said Sergeant Purvis sharply.1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. iii. 185 Gee, it's good to have a look at you, old socks!1934 H. G. Radcliffe in Passing Show 27 Jan. 5/4 Hey, Morrison, old socks. How's things!1950 R. Moore Candlemas Bay 19 Ninety..pounds, Jebby, old socks.
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