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日頃目に付いた覚えたい英単語、慣用句などの表現についてのメモです。

have at you

2012年06月13日 | 英語学習
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? も終わり近くになってきました。
GEORGE [grabbing her hair, pulling her head back]: Now, you listen to me, Martha; you have had quite an evening ... quite a night for yourself, and you can't just cut it off whenever you've got enough blood in your mouth. We are going on, and I'm going to have at you, and it's going to make your performance tonight look like an Easter pageant. Now I want you to get yourself a little alert. [Slaps her lightly with his free hand.] I want a little life in you, baby. [Again]
MARTHA: [struggling]; Stop it!
また基本的な単語からなる慣用句らしき表現が出て来ました。 "have at you" を辞書で調べます。
"have at" という慣用句が見つかりました。
・Wiktionary: (transitive, idiomatic, archaic) To attack; to engage in combat with.: The Prince of Venosa was in their midst, shouting: "Have at the traitor! Kill! Kill!"
この辞書は "have at you" の項も "have at" とは別にある事も分かりました。
・Wiktionary: (dated) An exclamation indicating that one is about to strike the person addressed, typically with a sword or other hand-held weapon.: Dark and sinister man, have at thee. Barrie JM (1904), Peter Pan.
・American Heritage Dictionary: Attack; also, make an attempt at. For example, Urging the dog on, he said , " Go on, Rover, have at him ," or It's time to have at straightening out these files .
・Oxford English Dictionary: tackle or attack forcefully or aggressively:: somehow we thought we had to have at each other
ちょっと古い表現の様ですね。日本語でも劇やドラマで普通は日常使わない表現を耳にする事があるのでそれと同じですね。
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