词汇 | punishment |
释义 | IDIOMSLANG PUNISHMENT burn someone at the stake to set fire to a person tied to a post (as a form of execution).They used to burn witches at the stake.Look, officer, I only ran a stop sign. What are you going to do, burn me at the stake? catch it to get into trouble and receive punishment. (Informal.)I know I’m going to catch it when I get home.Bob hit Billy in the face. He really caught it from the teacher. fix someone's wagon to punish someone; to get even with someone; to plot against someone. (Informal.)If you ever do that again, III fix your wagon!Tommy! You clean up your room this instant, or III fix your wagon!He reported me to the boss, but I fixed his wagon. I knocked his lunch on the floor. get a licking and take a licking to get a spanking; to get beat in a fight. (Folksy.)Billy, you had better get in here if you don’t want to get a licking.Bob took a real licking in the stock market.Tom took a licking in the fight he was in. get a shellacking and take a shellacking to be beaten—as in sports. (Slang.)Our team played well, but got a shellacking anyway.I practiced my tennis game so I wouldn't take a shellacking in the tournament. get it to receive punishment.Bill broke the window, and he's really going to get it.John got it for arriving late at school. get it in the neck to receive something bad, such as punishment or criticism. (Slang.)I don't know why I should get it in the neck. I didn't break the window.Bill got it in the neck for being late. get one's knuckles rapped to receive punishment.I got my knuckles rapped for whispering too much.You will have your knuckles rapped if you are not careful. have someone's hide to punish someone. (Slang. Refers to skinning an animal.)If you ever do that again, I'll have your hide.He said he'd have my hide if I entered his garage again. in for it due to receive punishment.I hope I'm not in for it because I am late.Tommy, you broke my baseball bat. You're really in for it! pay for something to be punished for something.The criminal will pay for his crimes.I don't like what you did to me, and I'm going to see that you pay for it. pay one's debt (to society) to serve a sentence for a crime, usually in prison.The judge said that Mr. Simpson had to pay his debt to society.Mr. Brown paid his debt in state prison. send someone up the river to send someone to prison. (Slang.)The judge sent Bill up the river for ten years.The same judge sent him up the river the last time. stew in one's own juice to be left alone to suffer one's anger or disappointment. (Informal.)John has such a terrible temper. When he got mad at us, we just let him go away and stew in his own juice.After John stewed in his own juice for a while, he decided to come back and apologize to us. tan someone's hide to spank someone. (Folksy.)Billy's mother said she'd tan Billy's hide if he ever did that again."III tan your hide if you're late!" said Tom's father. tar and feather someone to chastise someone severely. (Fixed order.)They threatened to tar and feather me if I ever came back into their town.I don't believe that they'd really tar and feather me, but they could be very unpleasant. walk the plank to suffer punishment at the hand of someone. (From the image of pirates making their blindfolded captives commit suicide by walking off the end of a plank jutting out over the open sea.)Fred may think he can make the members of my department walk the plank, but we will fight back.Tom thought he could make John walk the plank, but John fought back. PUNISHMENT - LIGHT get a slap on the wrist to get a light punishment (for doing something wrong).He created quite a disturbance, but he only got a slap on the wrist.I thought I'd get a slap on the wrist for speeding, but I got fined $200.She had a slap on the wrist about that before. get off easy and get off lightly to receive very little punishment (for doing something wrong).It was a serious crime, but Mary got off easy.Billy's punishment was very light. Considering what he did, he got off lightly. give someone a slap on the wrist and slap someone on the wrist; slap someone's wrist to give someone a light punishment (for doing something wrong).The judge gave her a slap on the wrist for speeding.The judge should have done more than slap her wrist.They should do more than just slap his wrist. rap someone's knuckles to punish someone slightly.She rapped his knuckles for whispering too much.Don't rap my knuckles. I didn't do it. punishment noun severe handling; pain, misery UK, 1811.► put to the punishmentin horse racing, to use any physicality such as whipping or kicking to an extreme degree US, 1951a glutton for punishmentA person who continues to do things whose consequences they find difficult or unpleasant. I couldn't wait to finish college, but I soon found myself in grad school. I must be a glutton for punishment. Why does George keep getting detention? Is he a glutton for punishment? glutton for punishmentFig. someone who is eager for a burden or some sort of difficulty; someone willing to accept a difficult task. Tom works too hard. He is a glutton for punishment. I enjoy managing difficult projects, but I am a glutton for punishment. glutton for punishmentSomeone who habitually takes on burdensome or unpleasant tasks or unreasonable amounts of work. For example, Rose agreed to organize the church fair for the third year in a row-she's a glutton for punishment . This expression originated as a glutton for work in the late 1800s, punishment being substituted about a century later. a glutton for punishmentIf someone is a glutton for punishment, they keep on doing something which most people would find unpleasant or difficult. As well as the early starts riding and late nights working, this glutton for punishment is also studying for a degree. I know it's a big job to take on, but then I've always been a glutton for punishment. Note: A glutton is a greedy person. a glutton for punishmenta person who is always eager to undertake hard or unpleasant tasks.Glutton of — was used figuratively from the early 18th century for someone inordinately fond of the thing specified, especially when translating the Latin phrase helluo librorum ‘a glutton of books’. The possible origin of the present phrase is in early 19th-century sporting slang. a ˌglutton for ˈpunishment, ˈwork, etc.(informal) a person who seems to like doing unpleasant or difficult things: You’re going to drive all the way to London and back in a day? You’re a glutton for punishment, aren’t you?She’s a glutton for work. She stays late every evening.A glutton is a person who is too fond of food. In this idiom, it refers to a person who seems to be very fond of the thing mentioned. glutton for punishment, aA masochist, a person who seeks out odious or onerous tasks, or habitually takes on more than is reasonable. The earliest version of this term was a glutton for work and dates from the latter part of the nineteenth century. It was used by Kipling in his story A Day’s Work (1895): “He’s honest, and a glutton for work.” Whether work is viewed as punishment or not is clearly up to the viewer. The OED, which cites a glutton for punishment only in 1971, makes no such judgment. |
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