behindhand

behindhand englannista suomeksi

1. myöhässä oleva, myöhässä, jäljessä oleva

2. jäljessä

behindhand englanniksi

1. Late, tardy, overdue, behind (in accomplishing a task, etc.).

2. {{quote-text|en|year=1911|author=Hugh Walpole|title=Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45068|chapter=11|page=221|publisher=Macmillan|year_published=1919|location=London

3. Not at the expected point of completion.

4. (quote-text)|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/110/110-h/110-h.htm|chapter=50

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1904|author=Edith Ferguson Black|title=A Princess in Calico|location=Philadelphia|publisher=The Union Press|chapter=8|page=97|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27630/27630-h/27630-h.htm

6. Behind (someone or something moving, a trend, etc.), lagging behind, not up|keeping up.

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1770|author=Edmund Burke|title=Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents|location=London|publisher=J. Dodsley|page=5|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004903072.0001.000

8. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=John Warren|chapter=On living to one’s-self|page=227|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100135033

9. (quote-book)|title=A Bayard from Bengal|location=London|publisher=Methuen|chapter=13|pages=97–98|url=https://archive.org/details/bayardfrombengal00anstuoft

10. Behind in paying a debt; in arrears.

11. (RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale) the wrongs I have done thee stirAfresh within me, and these thy offices,So rarely kind, are as interpretersOf my behind-hand slackness.

12. (RQ:Gaskell Wives and Daughters)

13. {{quote-book|en|year=1939|author=Christopher Isherwood|title=Goodbye to Berlin|location=London|publisher=Vintage|year_published=1998|chapter=A Berlin Diary|page=18|url=https://archive.org/details/goodbyetoberlin00chri

14. Not having enough of, lacking (''in'' something).

15. 1777, (w), Letter to (w) dated 25 November, 1777, cited in James Boswell, ''(w)'', London: Charles Dilly, 1791, Volume 2, p. 178,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004839390.0001.002

(..) I have had for some time a very difficult and laborious respiration, but I am better by purges, abstinence, and other methods. I am yet however much behind-hand in my health and rest.

16. Inferior, less advanced (compared ''with'' someone ''in'' something).

17. (RQ:Fielding Tom Jones) I’ll shew you I scorn to be behind-hand in Civility with you; and as you are not angry for what I have said, so I am not angry for what you have said.

18. (quote-text)|title=Henry|location=London|publisher=Charles Dilly|section=Volume 4, Book 11, Chapter 10, p. 184|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004875941.0001.004

19. (RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol)

20. {{quote-text|en|year=1975|author=Paul Fussell|title=The Great War and Modern Memory|url=https://archive.org/details/greatwarmodern00paul|chapter=4|pages=136–137|publisher=Oxford University Press

21. Belatedly, tardily.

22. In debt, or in arrears.