| 单词 | to skin alive |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto skin (a person) alive b. transitive. In hyperbolical use, with person as object. Frequently in to skin (a person) alive. ΚΠ 1728 Lottery ii. ii. 22 I love you, skin me, if I don't, you little Rogue you. 1820 Ld. Byron Let. 21 Oct. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1830) 348/1 No more Keats, I entreat:—flay him alive; if some of you don't, I must skin him myself. 1866 Jrnl. Educ. for Upper Canada 19 99/2 ‘I will skin you alive if you do that again,’ exclaimed a mother to a naughty child. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 201 They may skin me alive, if they please..if only my skin is made at last, not like that of Marsyas, into a leathern bottle, but into a piece of virtue. 1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iii. 137 Come down..or I will skin you alive! 1982 V. Alcock Sylvia Game viii. 56 He pointed out that Oliver was wearing his new trousers and Nanny would skin him if he got them wet and muddy. 2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 331 She'd skin me alive if I got this done but she'd like it really. < as lemmas |
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