单词 | to sock a person one |
释义 | > as lemmasto sock a person one a. (a) To beat, strike hard, hit. to sock a person one: to give (him) a hard blow. (b) figurative (U.S.) To give a hard blow to; esp. to take large sums of money from (someone). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > charges > [verb (transitive)] > overcharge overchargea1400 surcharge1429 overset?1533 sauce1602 hoist1607 over-reckon1615 extortionc1650 sock1699 fleece1719 soak1895 slug1925 rob1934 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike hard or vigorously dingc1300 knock1377 thwack1533 stoter1690 sock1699 whack1721 slog1824 whither1825 drub1849 thack1861 slug1862 dang1866 whomp1973 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > suddenly or severely windshake1614 to knock for a loop1936 whiplash1957 sock1978 (a) (b)1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xvi. 248 Find out how much they gonna sock ya for the lessons.1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? x. 191 When a moving picture is right, it socks the eye and the ear and the solar plexus.1943 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 1/2 Cost rises are so precipitate..that one Congressman..suggested ‘we're being socked everywhere in foreign countries.’1973 J. Cleary Ransom ii. 44 I don't know what sort of demands they're making. If they're socking the Mayor..the price is gonna be high—he's a very rich man.1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. a.8/1 The township socked the company with a building permit violation.1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Sock, to Beat... I'll Sock ye, I'll Drub ye tightly. 1870 R. B. Mansfield School Life Winchester Coll. 234 Sock, to hit hard at Cricket. 1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 28 We socks 'im with a stretcher-pole. 1896 N. Newnham-Davis Three Men & a God 30 ‘Sock 'em, Blackie!’ said W. Smith. ‘Sock the swine!’ echoed his brother. 1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap vii. 289 Once she'd tramped on the gas of a ninety-horse~power racer and socked him against a stone wall. 1926 Variety 29 Dec. 5/3 No craving for expression motivated me when I hung up the finger glove and sliding pads in favor of socking a typewriter. 1927 D. B. W. Lewis On Straw 61 Sock 'im on the ear, Sargint. 1931 F. Buck & E. Anthony Bring 'em back Alive 231 More than once I was tempted to sock him one. 1933 G. B. Shaw Polit. Madhouse Amer. 21 Why do you applaud these screen heroes who, when they are not kissing the heroine, are socking jaws? It is a criminal offence to sock a citizen in the jaw. 1982 B. Chatwin On Black Hill xiv. 67 The porter had socked him on the jaw, and he now lay, face down on the paving. < as lemmas |
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