| 单词 | with or by main and might |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswith or by main and might b. with or by (all one's) might and main and variants (now chiefly literary or rhetorical): = with all one's might at Phrases 3; also with or by main and might in same sense (now rare). Also †might and main (as adverbial phrase): strenuously, vigorously. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy with (also in) mood and maineOE vigour13.. with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330 with (one's) forcec1380 like anything1665 hammer and tongs1708 like stour1787 (in) double tides1788 like blazes1818 like winking1827 with a will1827 like winky1830 like all possessed1833 in a big way1840 like (or worse than) sin1840 full swing1843 like a Trojan1846 like one o'clock1847 like sixty1848 like forty1852 like wildfire1857 like old boots1865 like blue murder1867 like steam1905 like stink1929 like one thing1938 like a demon1945 up a storm1953 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [phrase] > with all one's might (at, by, with) all one's mightOE by (also by one's) powerc1300 with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330 at (also at all, after) one's power1384 upon one's powerc1400 to (the best of, the uttermost of, the extent of) one's power?a1425 tooth and naila1535 with tooth and naila1535 with both hands1549 with teeth and alla1600 horse and footc1600 with all one's force1677 for all it's worth1864 c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 426 (MED) Sadok..clepd him fiz a putayn & smot him wiþ miȝt and main. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 56 (MED) Toward Wircestre he com with myght & mayn. a1450 York Plays (1885) 162 (MED) Whoso ther two fulfilles then With mayne and myght in gode manere, He trulye fulfillis all þe ten. 1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. B.iv I purpose his sarvaunt to be..With mayne and all my myght. 1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 80 The Deuill set vppon him with all might and maine. 1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 245 Than past thay baith bauldlie wt mane & micht. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Cor A cor & à cry,..by might and maine, with heaue and hoe; eagerly, vehemently, seriously. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xv. cclix. 293 Logos look'd bigg, and struggled might and main. 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Hist. Revol. Naples (1664) i. 48 The Card. Archb. of Naples with all his might and main..did not spare pains. 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. xxii. 321 I ran with might and main for some Sallad-oyl, a Jarr whereof I brought in the twinkling of an eye. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I feel the delicious velvet tip!—He enters me might and main. 1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village i. xi. 22 To pleasure you, with main and might, I'll labour every day. 1787 F. Burney Diary 4 June (1842) III. 370 The hair-dresser..went to work first, and I second, with all our might and main. 1804 Ld. Nelson Lett. (1814) II. 7 They call out, might and main, for our protection. 1860 R. W. Emerson Wealth in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 81 The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do. 1873 B. P. Shillaber Partingtonian Patchwork 211 Yet Hornbeam and Jo Chesman Both swear, by main and might, That they were sober as a judge, And only Seth was tight. 1925 Amer. Mercury July 311/2 The same [scheme] in essentials that Washington had hit upon in 1793, and tried with might and main to enforce. 1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor i. iv. 46 What else but strive with might and main to leap in again? 1993 J. Laughlin Man in Wall 32 She wanted her lover most madly To have him hold her tight She wanted him to squeeze her With all his main and might. < as lemmas |
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