| 单词 | within an inch of one's life |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswithin an inch of one's life (or †skin) a. A very small measure, distance, amount, or degree; the least amount or part (of space, time, material or immaterial things); a very little; a ‘bit’. Esp. in within an inch of one's life (or †skin): almost to the point of death; so as to be nearly killed; frequently hyperbolically and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a very small amount shredc1000 farthingsworthc1325 pennyworthc1330 incha1350 sliverc1374 chipa1393 gnastc1440 Jack1530 spoonful1531 crumba1535 spark1548 slight1549 pin's worth1562 scruple1574 thought1581 pinch1583 scrap1583 splinter1609 ticket1634 notchet1637 indivisible1644 tinyc1650 twopence1691 turn of the scale(s)1706 enough to swear by1756 touch1786 scrimptiona1825 infinitesimal1840 smidgen1841 snuff1842 fluxion1846 smitchel1856 eyelash1860 smidge1866 tenpenceworth1896 whisker1913 tidge1986 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > there is danger in a course of action [phrase] > so as to be in danger of being killed within an inch of one's life (or skin)1726 a1350 Birth of Jesus 40 in Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1875) 66 Þe tyme hem Þoȝte longe Inouȝ, ech vnche hem þouȝte a sponne. c1400 Rom. Rose 5101 But thou art not an inch the nerre. 1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones iii. 360 Neither will I suffer my selfe..to depart one ynch from thy holie commandments. 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. H2 There is not left in him one ynch of man. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 76 Tho' thousands of their Men dropt, they would not give ground an Inch. 1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 30 I will drub you, you Dog, within an Inch of your Life, and that Inch too. 1781 W. Cowper Let. 4 Oct. (1979) I. 525 That I may avail myself of every Inch of time. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiii. 115 I'll flog you within an inch of your life, and spare you that. 1854 B. P. Shillaber Life & Sayings Mrs. Partington 81 I'll be tempered to whip you within an inch of your skin. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 156 He could not see an inch before him. 1896 W. D. Howells Impressions & Experiences 74 The defendent..had invited her to come down the street to a certain point, and be beaten within an inch of her life. 1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xii. 126 The grammar class were parsed and analyzed within an inch of their lives. 1932 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Thank Heaven Fasting iii. i. 250 She's always bullied Cecily within an inch of her life. 1939 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Ingleside i. 12 He said that..everybody else would be dressed within an inch of her life. 1939 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Ingleside iv. 30 If I had talked to my parents like that..I would have been whipped within an inch of my life. < as lemmas |
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