[Ads-l] to cave

[Jonathan Lighter]

See HDAS for still more.

JL

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I saw the following headline after Speith's failure to win the Master's
> > after a 7 on the par-3 12th:
> >
> > WSJ NEWS ALERT: Danny Willett Wins Masters After Jordan Spieth Caves on
> the
> > 12th Hole
> >
> > Does the OED have "cave", without "in", meaning collapse?
>
> Yep.
>
> 1844   Spirit of Times 23 Mar. 42/2   List 'till I tell you, and if
> you do not agree with me, why, I'll cave.
> 1855   ‘P. Paxton’ Capt. Priest 64   The one who ‘caves’ first shall
> pay the shot.
> 1858   N.Y. Tribune 1 May 4/2   One..of the six South American
> opponents of Lecompton caved; the others stood firm.
> 1860   J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xxii. 390,   I tell you
> when a man gets in front of him Sunday, he catches it—no use
> dodging—might as well cave.
> 1863   C. Reade Hard Cash I. 287   ‘Now I cave.’
> 1961   ‘A. A. Fair’ Stop at Red Light (1962) xi. 169   The guy
> caved... The guy broke down and admitted the whole damned business.
>
> > I note that, in 1996, Greg Norman was said to "cave in" when he lost to
> > Nick Faldo.
> >
> >
> https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AHdVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ET8NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1859%2C7870568
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