An act of striking; a blow given or received. A blow with the hand or a weapon (occasionally with the paw of an animal, the claws or beak of a bird…
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| 释义 | society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > come to blows (6) to come to strokes1297 An act of striking; a blow given or received. A blow with the hand or a weapon (occasionally with the paw of an animal, the claws or beak of a bird… to fall in hand (also hands)1448 to fall in hand (also hands): to come to blows; to argue, have words, or (in weakened sense) negotiate with. Also to fall on hand. Obsolete. to fall to1577 intransitive. To begin doing something, esp. in a purposeful or energetic manner; spec. (a) to begin fighting; to come to blows; (b) to begin… come (or go), fall, get to blows1594 ‘An act of hostility’ (Johnson). Usually in plural blows = ‘combat, fighting, war’, in the phrases to be at blows, come (or go), fall, get to blows… to go or fall to cuffsa1616 at cuffs: at blows, fighting; to goor fall to cuffs. to fall, get, go to loggerheads1671 plural in various phrases. to fall, get, go to loggerheads: to come to blows. to be at loggerheads: to be contending about differences of… |
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