单词 | to set one's foot on the neck of |
释义 | > as lemmasto set one's foot on the neck of (a) to set one's foot on the neck of and variants: to hold in subjection, to subjugate, to oppress. Cf. neck n.1 Phrases 1a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > suppress, repress, or put down nithereOE adweschOE overtreadOE quellOE to trample or tread under foot (also feet)c1175 adauntc1325 to bear downc1330 oppressc1380 repressc1391 overyoke?a1425 quencha1425 to bear overc1425 supprisec1440 overquell?c1450 farec1460 supprime1490 downbeara1500 stanch1513 undertread1525 downtread1536 suppress1537 to set one's foot on the neck of1557 depress?a1562 overbear1565 surpress1573 trample1583 repose1663 spiflicate1749 sort1815 to trample down1853 to sit on ——1915 to clamp down1924 crack down1940 tamp1959 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 28 And you, with her, of cruelnesse, Did set your foote vpon my neck, Me, and my welfare to oppresse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. v. 181 Wilt thou set thy foote o'my necke. View more context for this quotation 1680 G. Hickes Spirit of Popery Pref. 4 Our Covenanting Hildebrandists..would set their feet on the Necks of Christian Princes. 1749 W. Crookshank Hist. Church Scotl. II. xiv. 409 Enemies think they have got their foot on the neck of the protestant interest now. 1751 Scots Mag. Dec. 555/1 The Jews..may then hope..to be thereby enabled to put their foot upon the necks of the people who have always been..their declared enemies. 1839 W. J. Neale Flying Dutchman I. i. 4 Haughty fools! I will live to put my foot on their necks yet. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vi. 128 See, your foot is on our necks, We vanquish'd. 1937 L. O'Flaherty Famine vi. 52 Who is a greater robber than the Catholic gombeen man as soon as he gets his foot on the neck of his own flesh and blood? 1998 in C. E. Jones Black Panther Party (Reconsidered) vi. 149 Many of them [white people] had the same foot on their neck as we had on ours. < as lemmas |
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