come to blows 的定义
- Begin to fight. For example, It hardly seems worth coming to blows over a dollar! Thomas Hobbes had it in Leviathan: “Their controversie must either come to blowes, or be undecided.” This term is also put as fall to blows, especially in Britain. [Late 1500s]
come to blows 近义词
to physically fight
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- Meanwhile, in Florida, Bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the Sunshine State.
- These generally come from the outside, from cultural pressures and messages.
- But there is an underlying feeling that the worst is yet to come.
- My agent at the time sent that tape to SNL and then they asked me to come in for an audition.
- And suddenly, we were able to come up with all these scenes for it.
- In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.
- Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
- Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
- He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
- Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.