| 单词 | to sign one's own death warrant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sign one's own death warrant 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Frequently in to sign one's own death warrant. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy oneself [verb (reflexive)] spillc950 waste1548 wrack1564 spoil1578 ruin1585 consume1606 death warrant1721 1721 N. Henchman Holy & Useful Life J. Burrill 5 All his humane Glory could not protect and shield him when God sent his Death Warrant. 1777 London Mag. May 242/2 The old Whigs, when they joined the Leicester House Junto,..little imagined that they were signing their own death-warrant,..that they were in fact paving the way to their own ruin. 1790 E. Pendleton Let. 18 Sept. in Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 573 Was the cruel law..the death Warrant to Our hopes? 1814 W. Scott Life of Swift in J. Swift Wks. I. v. 253 It was her death-warrant. She sunk at once under the disappointment. 1832 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 73/2 The present peers..are willing, good easy simpletons! to sign their own death-warrant. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 178 An institution whose death-warrant you pretend to be signing. 1921 D. D. Sheehan Ireland since Parnell ix. 100 It was inconceivable that the landlords should have, in solemn treaty, signed their own death warrant as territorialists. 1985 Time 4 Feb. 85 Sometimes..movies can elude their death warrants and flourish into cult objects through doggedness and word of mouth. 2006 Prospect Aug. 21/1 We could afford a fully British Trident replacement with a 5 per cent cut to the benefit and health budgets, but that would be as much of a political death warrant as unilateral disarmament. < as lemmas |
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