| 单词 | to set cock-a-hoop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto set (a person) cock-a-hoop 2. to set (a person) cock-a-hoop: to make a person elated or exultant. Now rare.In quot. 1720 with a person's heart as metonymic object. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > make joyful or delighted [verb (transitive)] blissa1000 faina1300 joy1303 delighta1382 rejoya1393 forblissa1400 gleea1400 rejoicec1425 blymc1440 delect1510 take?1553 gladden1558 oblectate1611 beglada1617 deliciate1633 delectate1647 to set (a person) cock-a-hoop1652 1652 Perfect Diurnall No. 112. 1631 I suppose the story is the same with that which we had about a moneth since..; no man knowing whether or from whence they should come, but tis enough to set our Presbyterian Brethren Cock a Hoop. 1720 J. Gay Poems Several Occasions II. 401 Your eyes, lips, breasts, are so provoking, They set my heart more cock-a-hoop, Than could whole seas of craw-fish soupe. 1812 C. J. Napier Let. Oct. in W. Napier Life & Opinions Sir C. J. Napier (1857) I. 190 England would be my choice now but for those battles, which set me cock a hoop despite of reason which says fighting is bad for you, Charles Napier, and you don't like it. 1942 Times 12 Dec. 4/4 The first of three Japanese sectors to be liquidated in this success at Gona has set every one cock-a-hoop. < as lemmas |
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