| 单词 | to trip up one's heels |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto trip up one's heels a. transitive. To cause to stumble or fall by suddenly arresting or catching the foot; ‘to throw by striking the feet from the ground by a sudden motion; to strike the feet from under the body’ (Johnson). Also with up, † down. Often with the heels, foot, etc., as object, esp. in the phrase to trip up one's heels. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > stumble over something > cause to stumble stumblec1330 supplantc1350 tripc1425 to give a person the foot1767 chip1788 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > cause to stumble and fall stumblec1330 supplantc1350 tripc1425 to give a person the foot1767 leg1835 c1425 Cast. Persev. 3426 in Macro Plays 179 He wende þat he schulde a levyd ay, tyl dethe trypte hym on his daunce. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 762/2 Why dyd you tryppe him as he was ronnyng? 1592 R. Greene Thirde Pt. Conny-catching sig. E3 The other following tript vp his heeles. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Eiij The earth in loue with thee, thy footing trips . View more context for this quotation 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 83 Stew. Ile not be struck my Lord. Kent. Nor tript neither, you base football player. View more context for this quotation 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 27 I beat thee, and tript vp thy heeles. View more context for this quotation 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 114 He..Tript me behind. View more context for this quotation 1627 M. Drayton Nimphidia in Battaile Agincourt 128 A Stump doth trip him in his pace, Downe comes poore Hob vpon his face. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xi. 20) iii. 84 The verb..signifieth to Supplant, or to trip down, which is oft done with the heel. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 42. ¶1 The right adjusting of her Train, lest it should chance to trip up her Heels. 1786 F. Burney Diary 13 Aug. (1842) III. 105 I have come on prodigiously..in the power and skill of walking backwards, without tripping up my own heels. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 100 Henry Smith, parrying the blow.., and tripping him at the same time, gave him a severe fall. 1884 R. Browning Shah Abbas in Ferishtah's Fancies 144 What lay on floor to trip your foot? < as lemmas |
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