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单词 to set behind the door
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to set behind the door
a.to drink or eat out of doors: to bring to destitution by excessive drinking or eating: cf. eat v. 4ato fetch at the doors of: to obtain from. to lay, lie, or be at the door of: to impute, or be imputable or chargeable to. †to leap over the door: to escape, run out. †to set one's hand to the door: to apply oneself diligently. †to set behind the door: see quot. 1562. to darken a door: see darken v. Phrases.to keep open doors: see to keep open door(s) at open door n. 1.
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1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 128 They say when a man wylbe ryche, he muste sette his soule behinde the doore: that is to say, he must vse falsehode and deceit.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 464/2 We must not therefore spare our selues..but set our handes to the dore, as the prouerbe is.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 166 It is so much for your honour..to have the Scotch fetch their laws at your doors.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 10 A part of the Commonwealth has leaped over the door.
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 437 Many Sailors drink..wives and children out of doors.
1683 London Gaz. No. 1835/3 The fault will lye at their doors.
1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 299 The Blood..must all be layd to his door.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. vii. 34 You have, in a manner, laid your Sins at my Door. View more context for this quotation
1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere in Poems (new ed.) I. 157 The guilt of blood is at your door.
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