| 单词 | to swear one's way through… |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto swear one's way through… (b) With home or hyperbolical expressions, as through a two-inch board; also, to swear one's way through…: denoting hard swearing. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [verb (intransitive)] > swear or use profanity > extravagantly swear1678 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 271 He'll swear through an inch board, dagger out of sheath, the devil out of hell, 'till he's black in the face. 1680 in Hickeringill's Wks. (1716) II. 202 He swore home, or (as we say, through an Inch-board) against Records. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 348 The Witnesses swear so home against you. 1728 Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 372 Then he went through thick and thin, and, according to an old English phrase, swore through a two-inch board. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xvi. 147 That severe exertion which is known in legal circles as swearing your way through a stone wall. < as lemmas |
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