| 单词 | to tie up in knots |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto tie (a person) (up) in(to) knots (or a knot) a. Something intricate, involved, or difficult to trace out or explain; a tangle or difficulty; a knotty point or problem. Gordian knot: see Gordian adj. 1. to tie (a person) (up) in(to) knots (or a knot): to confuse or nonplus (someone). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult problem knotc1000 a bone to pick (also gnaw)c1450 dark, hard sentence1535 nut1540 Gordian knot1579 nodus1728 teaser1759 stumper1807 Chinese puzzlec1815 facer1828 sticker1849 grueller1856 stumbler1863 twister1879 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun] > knotty point, crux knotc1000 the milk in the coconut1840 crux1852 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > perplex, nonplus [phrase] to bring (drive, or put) to one's wit's end1377 to cast (also throw) a mist before a person's eyes?a1475 to set (also run) on ground1600 to make butter and cheese of1642 to put to the gaze1646 philogrobolized in one's brains1653 to strike all of (on) a heap1711 to blow, cast, throw stour in one's eyes1823 knot1860 to give (one) furiously to think1910 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 386 get her is oðer cnotta ealswa earfoðe, þæt is, ‘Nan man ne astihð to heofenum, buton se ðe of heofenum astah’. a1225 Leg. Kath. 1157 Ich habbe uncnut summe of þeos cnotti cnotten. c1400 Rom. Rose 4698 Unto hym that love wole flee, The knotte may unclosed bee. 1638–48 G. Daniel Eclog. iii. 185 All the Subtle Knotts, which crabbed Heads Have twist. 1676 W. Temple Let. to Sir J. Williamson in Lett. in Wks. (1731) II. 397 This Knot is of those that must be cut through, and cannot be untied. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 520 Knots worthy of solution, which alone A Deity could solve. 1860 Baily's Monthly Mag. Aug. 368 Never before..were bowlers or fielders so ‘tied up in a knot’. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxvii. 719 The death of John cut the knot. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. xx. 212 'Tis one of the greatest knots in service—the smoke question. 1888 A. G. Steel in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 167 The team was beginning to get tied up into a knot. 1957 D. Robins Noble One (1960) xx. 191 He is tied up in knots. He's fighting himself as well as me. 1974 I. Murdoch Sacred & Profane Love Machine 154 I could tie you into such knots, but I won't bother... You won't tell me the truth even now. to tie (a person) up in(to) knots (or a knot) 9. to tie (a person) up in(to) knots (or a knot): see knot n.1 10a. < as lemmas |
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