| 释义 |
ˈhay-foot
[hay n.1]
hay-foot, straw-foot: with right and left foot alternately (at the word of command). Also as v.
In allusion to the alleged use of hay and straw to enable a rustic recruit to distinguish the right foot from the left.
1851Knickerbocker XXXVIII. 79 At company-training and general-training..it was all ‘hay-foot, straw-foot’ with him. 1887J. D. Billings Hardtack & Coffee 208 Scores of men..would ‘hay-foot’ every time when they should ‘straw-foot’. 1898J. Macmanus Bend of Road 40 Poor fool, he's off, hay foot straw foot, an' small grass grows round his heels till he's there. 1911R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter vii. 98 You never got in a thousand miles of one of 'em for all your ‘heppin’ and ‘hay-foot’ and ‘straw-foot’ drillin'. 1911H. S. Harrison Queed i. 12 They march like little lambs when I say the word. Hay-foot—straw-foot. |