| 单词 | to take a bear by the tooth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take a bear by the tooth ΚΠ 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 70 If any man notwithstanding all this, will venture vpon it [sc. Adultery], hee may be saide to be a most desperate monster: for what doth hee else but as it were..take the Beare by the tooth. 1603 A. Dent Ruine of Rome i. 23 If they continue bold and busie this way, they may hap at last take a beare by the tooth, and peraduenture pull an olde house vpon their heads. 1638 R. Younge Drunkard's Char. 52 For whether he laughs, or chafes, he is a like apt to quarrell; or let but a friend admonish him, hee were as good take a Beare by the tooth. 1779 Considerations upon French & Amer. War 37 We shall as soon take a bear by the tooth as infringe an iota of that treaty. < as lemmas |
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