单词 | to turn up one's heels |
释义 | > as lemmasto turn (also tip, lay, etc.) up one's heels (a) to turn (also tip, lay, etc.) up one's heels and variants: to die; also in extended use. Now Australian.Cf. to kick up one's heels at Phrases 2g(b), to turn one's toes up at toe n. 5j. ΚΠ c1525 Bk. Mayd Emlyn sig. B.iiiv He toke a surfet with a cup That made hym tourne his heles vp. 1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde sig. Hv Ha, he, tse, tse, py, hy, see fortunes wheeles, So how, Mad Martin hath turnde vp his heeles. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 13 Of which [sickness]..seauen thousand and fifty people toppled vp their heeles there. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Passer oultre, to tipe vp the heeles, to die. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 31 Oftentimes (after a longe declininge and goinge backe) [they] turne up theire heeles. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 155 Nowe Shechem's gone, he hath laid up his heeles. 1710 New Map Trav. High Church Apostle 3 At last the Pagan Governour tips up his Heels and dyes, and then all the Hopes of the Pagans and Lewissites vanish'd. 1860 New Sporting Mag. Apr. 269 In the night old Iron Legs turned up her heels like the Tooley-street mare. 1886 Cairns (Queensland) Post 2 Dec. I've just brought him [sc. an alligator] down from the Territ'ry for a curiosity like. And now he's gone and turned up his heels. 1937 China Press (Shanghai) 27 June (Shipping section) 1/3 One seasick cow turned up her heels and was given a ‘big’ burial at sea. 2015 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Star (Nexis) 24 Aug. One plant can spoil the effect when it turns up its heels, leaving an unwanted gap. < as lemmas |
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