A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional Englishsays that “to get someone’s goat” may come from the French expressionprendre la chevre, which means to take the goat. Apparently, one way people could get milk was from a goat. So ...
根据英国设计师兼作家威廉·莫里斯(William Morris)与其女儿玛丽·莫里斯(Mary Morris)编写的“Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins”和英国词典编纂家埃里克·帕特里奇(Eric Partridge)编写的“A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English”,lay an egg可以追溯到1870年左...
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LINGUISTICS: Dictionary of American Slang. H arold W entworth and S tuart B erg F lexnerAmerican AnthropologistMadeleine Mathiot
而在American Dictionary of Slang中也解释为: on the ball - to be alert. “有过快乐时光”在口语上是have a good time,但在slang则常用 have a ball。 譬如: We had a ball last night. (我们昨晚玩得很尽兴。) nuts也如balls一样是禁忌语。 nut是“核桃”之意,而nuts只不过是加了复数的s,但是变...
Certainly, upon closer scrutiny, it becomes apparent that current usage rather than eighteenth-century usage is the basis of the interpretation of fanny as a sexual term. The first dictionaries to define fanny were Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland's A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook AcronymDefinition AAYFAs Always Your Friend(Internet slang) Copyright 1988-2018AcronymFinder.com, All rights reserved. Suggest new definition Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a li...
It was like being smacked in the face with a dictionary of British slang. I struggled so hard with that one. I must have listened to it ten times before I started catching on to their ridiculous pronunciations. Even then, I missed a bunch of the questions and had to get my mom to ...
1937. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Colloquialisms and Catch-phrases, Solecisms and Catachreses, Nicknames, Vulgarisms and such American... E Partridge 被引量: 3发表: 1937年 The Two-Word Verb (A Dictionary of the Verb-Preposition Phrases in American English) || Ο 1937...
At the end of 2005, two fat new dictionaries—“The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English” and “Cassell's Dictionary of Slang” —hit the bookshops. Ignoring English's slang is like travelling to a new country and only visiting places recommended in a 10-year-...