单词 | with one's eyes shut |
释义 | > as lemmaswith one's eyes shut (also closed) m. with one's eyes shut (also closed). extracted from eyen.1 (a) Without considering the possible difficulties or consequences. Cf. with eyes open at open adj. 7c. ΚΠ 1657 J. Dodington tr. C. Vialart Hist. Govt. France 273 He doth not fight rashly with his eyes shut. 1693 W. Payne Pract. Disc. Repent. vii. 187 Such presumptuous persons only rush into Hell with their eyes shut, and see not their danger before they are in it. 1791 E. Gibbon Let. 18 May in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 220 To have read the aforesaid acts, would have been difficult; to have understood them, impracticable, I therefore signed them with my eyes shut. 1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer II. x. 169 The Delawares are prudent. The Deerslayer will not find them running into a strange camp with their eyes shut. 1888 R. B. W. Noel Mod. Faust 82 The eldest daughter..was about to marry a rich person of dubious reputation—with her eyes open; the younger was affianced to an old ‘hereditary legislator’ of notoriously bad life—with her eyes shut. 1925 G. Kelly Craig's Wife (1926) ii. 122 Did you expect me to go into a thing as important as marriage with my eyes shut? 1961 W. J. Newman Futilitarian Society ii. 105 Goldwater's book..is more significant than a mere demonstration of how far a conservative can go with his eyes closed. 2010 Times (Nexis) 9 June 6 They went into Helmand with their eyes shut and fingers crossed. (b) Without having to make much effort; easily; usually with verbs preceded by can. ΚΠ 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 7. 47 He will tell you, with his Eyes shut, what Province, what Mountain supplied the Liquor. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey V. vii. vii. 65 Doubtless Little Lintz could have given a most faithful representation of every brick of the Great Square of Reisenburg with his eyes shut. 1898 Argosy Apr. 64 As for dropping the coil over the animal's horns, fifty feet away, he could do that with his eyes shut. 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald Tales Jazz Age (1922) 72 He had loved to draw her..he could draw her pert, arresting profile with his eyes shut. 1950 N.Y. Times 26 Sept. 37/2 She could act this part with her eyes closed, but since her eyes are very lively, she has the good taste to keep them open. 2005 L. Dean This Human Season (2006) xxxvii. 232 Red-brick row-house street after red brick row-house street; she knew the names of them so well she could recite them with her eyes closed. < as lemmas |
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