| 单词 | all legs and wings |
| 释义 | > as lemmasall legs and wings b. all legs and wings. extracted from legn. (a) Having disproportionately long limbs; awkward or ungraceful in gait or bearing; gangly. Used typically of an adolescent. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [adverb] > and thin to be all legs and wings1777 lankily1903 1777 Morning Chron. 14 Feb. A young gentleman, remarkable for being tall and thin, attempted to be smart on a lady,..when she retorted, ‘that he was all legs and wings’. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. x. 126 [He] came shambling, all legs and wings, up the hatchway. 1902 C. Garvice Kyra's Fate xiv. 108 She had not been pretty, but had been an angular school-girl, all legs and wings and sharp corners. 1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise v. 98 Like a moll heron, all legs and wings. 1945 Times 9 May 8/4 Sun Storm..was not a racehorse at all. He was an unfledged youngster, all legs and wings. (b) Nautical. Of a sailing ship: = overmasted adj. Now historical. ΚΠ 1837 Bentley's Misc. Jan. 626 They belonged to a craft as laid in the harbour,—a reg'lar clipper, all legs and wings. 1881 Naval Encyl. 431/2 Legs and Wings, said of a vessel with masts of great height, and which consequently has too great spread of sail. 1904 E. R. Fremantle Navy as I have known It iii. 45 Her mainmast truck to water line was..147 feet, so that she was ‘all legs and wings’. 1988 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 27 Oct. 67 The exhibition includes a print of a ship nicknamed Giblet Pie because she was ‘all legs and wings’. < as lemmas |
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