| 单词 | to throw something back in a person's face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto throw something back in a person's face (b) to throw something back in a person's face and variants: to reject brusquely or ungraciously something which a person has given or offered. ΚΠ 1711 Vindic. Sacheverell 18 What Sir can we now say against Mr. Biffet, but what he and his Accomplices may throw back in our Face? 1821 London Mag. June 595/1 We load his Lordship with ecstatic admiration, with unqualified ostentatious eulogies; and he throws them stifling back in our face. 1856 Times 19 Jan. 6 Russia also accepted..the four guarantees proposed by the Powers, and then flung them back in our faces at the Conferences of Vienna. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. v. 105 I was not obliged to fling his offerings back in his face. 1932 P. Bentley Inheritance iv. iii. 410 Here we condescend to meet the men unofficially and offer them these good terms, and they throw it back in our faces. 2001 Constr. News 20 Sept. 76/3 We had..raised a respectable sum but Lovely threw the offer back in our face. < as lemmas |
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