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galley-west, adv. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|ˈgælɪwɛst|
Also galleywest, gallywest.
[An alteration of Eng. dial. colly-west, weston: see E.D.D. and Collyweston 2.]
Phr. to knock galley-west, to knock sideways or askew; to bring to confusion; to knock out or dispose of completely.
1875‘Mark Twain’ Lett. (1917) I. 250 Your verdict has knocked what little [critical penetration] I did have gally-west! 1884― Huck. Finn xxxvii. 382 Then she grabbed up the basket and slammed it across the house, and knocked the cat galleywest. 1891M. E. Ryan Pagan of Alleghanies xiv. 184 Here you come with your theories of hue and knock my serenity galley-west. 1892Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 66 It knocks pleasant domestic arrangements galleywest. 1936J. Dos Passos Big Money 77 A wave had knocked him galleywest. 1938S. Chase Tyranny of Words viii. 87 Einstein shattered a whole cosmology of concepts. Let us not be knocked galley-west again, says Bridgman. |