单词 | to stick in the clay |
释义 | > as lemmasto stick in the clay a. intransitive. Of a person, animal, or vehicle: to be unable to progress due to becoming mired in, or obstructed by, sand, mud, or some other material; (of a boat) to become grounded. Also in figurative contexts in phrases such as to stick in the briers, to stick in the clay, etc.: †to be in difficulties or trouble (obsolete).See also to stick in the mire at mire n.1 1b, to stick in the mud at Phrases 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > cease to move or become motionless > be arrested or intercepted in progress > by entangling stickeOE mesh1565 snarl1600 entangle1628 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (intransitive)] > come to an impasse or be stuck to stick in the claya1475 stick1534 stale1597 cumber1600 to stick in the mud1603 straita1616 strand1687 quagmire1701 stog1855 slew1890 bunker1894 bog1928 to be bogged1953 eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. xxvi. 502 Gesihst þu nu on hu miclum & on hu diopum & on hu þiostrum horoseaða þara unðeawa ða yfelwillendan sticiað [L. quanto in caeno probra volvantur]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 237 (MED) In his goynge out of his schip he slood wiþ his oon foot and stiked [?a1475 anon. tr.was fixede; L. infigitur] in þe sond. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2723 (MED) And of his Slouthe he dremeth ofte Hou that he stiketh in the myr. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 411 And in the sond hir ship stiked so faste That thennes wolde it noght of al a tyde. a1475 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Cambr. Gg.1.16) (1997) iii. xxii. 90 Haue merci on me oute of the cleye, þat [I] styk not þerynne. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. i. 80 Scho with a thuid stikkit on ane scharp roike. 1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere vi. p. ccxiiii The ferther he wadeth on in hys solucyon, the deper he synketh in to the mudde, and the faster he stycketh in the myre. 1590 in Acts Privy Council (1899) XIX. 406 The Thames is soe shallowe in divers places as boates and barges doe sticke by the waie. 1600 R. Cawdrey Treasurie Similies 421 As Carters vse to set vp some bush, or other like marke, in that place where their Waine or Cart stuck fast, for a warning to them that come after. 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xxvii. 41 They ranne the shippe a ground, and the forepart stucke fast. View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 514 Unpassable Marishes and Moors, which a man no sooner treads upon, but he sticks in the Mud and Dirt. a1672 W. Whittaker Eighteen Serm. (1674) i. 2 Because this is frequently the case of souls whom the Spirit of God convinceth of sin..they stick in these Bryars, and are apt to be gravelled with objections. 1706 Boston News-let. 31 Dec. 1/2 She struck upon the East bank and stuck there. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vii. 354 At length the ship stuck fast in the mud. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xxi. 337 Mrs. Mac-Candlish's postilion..said aloud, ‘If he had stuck by the way, I would have lent him a heezie’. 1850 J. Bliss tr. St. Gregory's Morals on Job (new ed.) III. ii. xxxiv. 640 To stick in the clay, is to be polluted with the filthy desires of carnal concupiscence. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 198 The carriage..had stuck in one of the ridges. 1875 G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto xix. 178 An unaccustomed horse would have stuck fast up to its girths before it had gone fifty yards. 1904 Automobile Rev. 12 Mar. 481/2 At another time we stuck in a mud hole where a culvert had washed out. 1929 D. Bussy tr. A. Gide Trav. in Congo iii. 262 The whale-boat sticks in the sand two or three times an hour; all the boatmen jump into the river and haul and push for a long space of time. 2009 L. E. Bagshawe & A. J. Allott tr. ‘Theippan Maung Wa’ Wartime in Burma 85 When we had gone two or three miles farther, we came to a creek, and in crossing it we stuck in the sand. < as lemmas |
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