| 单词 | to throw the hatchet after the helve |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto throw the hatchet after the helve b. Phrases. to throw the helve after the hatchet: after losing or risking so much, to risk all that is left; to go the whole length regardless of loss or damage. Also, by confusion, to throw the hatchet after the helve. to put the axe in the helve: see axe n.1 Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [verb (intransitive)] > run a risk or take one's chance to take one's chancec1325 to take penancec1400 to throw at allc1400 to buy a pig (in Scotl. a cat) in a poke1546 to throw the helve after the hatchet1546 to set (up) one's rest1579 to give the adventure1607 to make a shaft or a bolt of ita1616 to run a fortune1627 to run for luck1799 to go the vole1816 chance1863 to chance one's arm1889 to take a chance or chances1902 gamble1919 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > risk oneself > risk everything to throw at allc1400 to send the axe after the helvea1450 to throw the helve after the hatchet1546 to go the vole1816 to go for broke1935 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Liiv Here I sende thaxe after the helue awaie. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1266/2 Rather throw the helue after the hatchet, and leaue your ruines to be repared by your prince. a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) 59 Wel come on, hatchet after helve, Ile even loose this too. 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (1711) 222 I abandon myself through despair..and as the saying is, throw the Helve after the Hatchet. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. xiii. 322 Monsieur Martigny will be too much heart-broken to make further fight, but will e'en throw helve after hatchet. < as lemmas |
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