| 单词 | by a side wind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby a side wind 2. figurative. An indirect means, method, or manner. Chiefly in by a side wind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [noun] circumquaque1546 circumduction1602 circumambulation1606 circuitya1626 indirectness1628 side wind1648 circumbendibus1681 ambagiosity1819 circumambulating1837 ambagiousness1867 circuitousness1869 1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 119 What they could not carry with a fore-wind, they now brought in againe with a side-wind. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 9 Let us come to a question by a side-wind, rather than by no wind. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. v. 84 Others..could not forbear some Expressions, which by a side-wind reflected on me. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 117 Acts of parliament have by a sidewind countenanced and established them. 1813 Ann. Reg. 1812 Gen. Hist. 18/1 The fact of which excess only came out by a side wind when the bill was brought forward. 1841 J. W. Croker Let. 12 Feb. in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers (1884) II. xxii. 197 Let the House..pass a distinct law against the practice, but not attempt to do it by a sidewind. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. x. 132 This is an attempt to evade and by a side wind defeat the provision of the Federal Constitution. 1963 Financial Times 10 Oct. 8/8 Mr. Wilson's scientific plan would introduce nationalisation by a side wind. 2009 Times 22 Oct. 79/5 It was not the purpose of the 1998 Act to overrule the will of Parliament by a side-wind. < as lemmas |
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