| 单词 | cucumber time | 
| 释义 | > as lemmascucumber time  c.  slang. Used with some obscure reference to a tailor. Hence  cucumber time,  cucumber season: see quots. ΚΠ 1699    B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew  				Cucumbers, Taylers. Cucumber-time, Taylers Holiday, when they have leave to Play, and Cucumbers are in Season. 1720    in  Roxburghe Ballads 		(1891)	 VII. 471  				Here a scratch, there a stitch, And sing Cucumber, Cucumber ho! 1764    S. Foote Mayor of Garret in  W. Hone Every-day Bk. 		(1827)	 II. 848  				A journeyman tailor!..This cross-legg'd cabbage-eating son of a cucumber. 1865    Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Sept. 16/2  				Tailors could not be expected to earn much money ‘in cucumber season’..‘Because when cucumbers are in, the gentry are out of town’. < as lemmas | 
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