单词 | under arms |
释义 | > as lemmasunder arms c. under arms and variants: (a) (of an army, nation, etc.) equipped with weapons or arms; in battle array; ready to fight; (b) originally and chiefly Australian (of a criminal) armed, having a weapon or weapons; (of a crime) committed using arms; often in robbery under arms (now rare).Also in to stand under arms: cf. to stand to arms at Phrases 1k. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adverb] in ferdc1330 in armsc1405 under arms1637 of (good) force1697 in their shoes1815 1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. i. 33 We mustered sicke and whole neere nine hundred men under Armes. 1689 Jrnl. Siege London-Derry (single sheet) 2/2 We stood under Arms till Three in the Morning, when sending forth Scouts, they discovered the Enemies were drawn up in Battalia, in Five great Bodies along their Line. 1694 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in Ann. Misc. 37 Thus, under heavy Arms, the Youth of Rome Their long laborious Marches overcome. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. x. 407 In this parade, a body of troops..were drawn up under arms. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. II. v. 41 In a moment the troops were under arms. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. False-alarms, are stratagems of war, frequently made use of to harrass an enemy, by keeping them perpetually under arms. 1855 Convict Discipline: Tasmania 6 in Accts. & Papers (House of Commons) (1856) 43 He is not aware of any bushrangers or marauder under arms being..at large in the colony. 1861 D. G. Rossetti tr. G. Villani in Early Ital. Poets ii. 197 The whole city got under arms. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ (title) Robbery under arms. 1902 G. S. Whitmore Last Maori War iv. 59 They remained all night under arms, firing at any suspicious object, or replying to any shot directed towards them. 1916 in T. Coates Irish Uprising, 1914–21 (2000) iii. 108 There had been a robbery under arms..of 250 lb of gelignite. 1998 N.Y. Times 20 Sept. wk3/1 The Taliban have only about 40,000 men under arms. 2016 @MiloJames2 2 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 20 Jan. 2020) Politically correct I am not but I did stand under arms in defense of that flag. < as lemmas |
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