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单词 to set one's foot on the neck of
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to 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.
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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.
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