2019年12月10日 · "uphill" appears to date from the early 1600s (which doesn't mean that "uphill battle" wasn't coined at least partially in relation to looking back on the Battle of Hastings). I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of those phrases that's so obvious or coined so early we don't have a well-source origin for it, but it would be interesting to ...

2014年12月23日 · If you face an uphill battle, you are marching against gravity. This would be more difficult. Hence, When I was your age, I walked fifteen miles to school, through the snow, uphill, both ways! (Warning: hyperlink goes to TV Tropes, where you will lose track of time.)

2014年9月30日 · The usage here seems to be literal (Queenstown is uphill from Gormanton), but the writing is not of the best quality. Better is this instance from Jon Cleary, The Climate of Courage, serialized in the Sydney [New South Wales] Morning Herald (December 16, 1953): "How do you feel, mate?" "Crook." All the cocky lightness had gone out of Mick's voice.

The first known record in print is from James Howard's comic play All Mistaken, or the Mad Couple, 1672: "Hist - now for a battle-royal.". The first citation that refers directly to cock-fighting is General Thomas Perronet Thompson's Audi alteram partem, 1857–61: "Cockerels crow across a ditch, till they get up a battle-royal."

2017年2月15日 · an uphill battle/fight/struggle (also an uphill job/task) if something you are trying to do is an uphill struggle, it is very difficult , often because other people are causing problems for you We're trying to expand our business, but it's an uphill battle.

2020年10月28日 · Another is that lich had an uphill battle because it looked the same as a very common word, like. The lists of forms for lich and like look rather alike; both could appear as lic , lich(e) , lych(e) , lyke , and like .

That's a "set piece" battle. The opposite of a set piece battle is a "meeting engagement." That is when forces collide with each other on the road, and start fighting, without having time to entrench, deploy, etc. Such an action is more like a "brawl" than a real battle. An example was the battle of Lundy's Lane in the War of 1812.

2012年2月18日 · This doesn't look right. The -cular at the end of "avuncular" is not a suffix. The word is composed of the root avuncul-+ the suffix -ar (a variant of -al generally used when there is an L nearby).

2013年6月10日 · Origin of "uphill battle" 3. Origin of the phrase "dotting the i's and crossing the t's" 20.

2017年3月30日 · The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms (1997) offers this derivation of "apples and oranges":. This metaphor for dissimilarity began as apples and oysters, which appeared in John Ray's proverb collection of 1670.