单词 | alive, , oh! |
释义 | > as lemmas(all) alive, (alive), oh! P3. colloquial. (all) alive, (alive), oh! and variants: (in or with reference to the cry of fish sellers) very much alive; full of energy or animation. ΚΠ ?1710 Squire Bickerstaff Detected 7 Can any Man of common Sense think it..not much beneath the Dignity of a Philosopher, to stand bawling before his own Dore—Alive! Alive! Hoa! 1793 J. Lackington Mem. (rev. ed.) iii. 51 He heard a woman cry, ‘Mackerel, all alive, alive O!’ 1825 T. Creevey Let. 16 Mar. in J. Gore Creevey Papers (1963) xii. 205 Our York is all alive O! He dined at Sefton's this day week as gay as a lark. 1854 J. R. Planché Once upon Time i. iv. 16 Sub. Girls, where's your mother? Chloe. Coming at a wish. Sub. She is—and all alive O! like your fish. 1883 J. Yorkston in W. H. Hills Students' Songs 55 She drove a wheelbarrow thro' streets broad and narrow, Crying ‘Cockles and mussels, alive, all a-live.’ 1941 ‘N. Blake’ Case of Abominable Snowman xix. 215 He and Andrew have skipped together, both alive-oh. 1956 ‘M. Innes’ Old Hall, New Hall i. x. 91 Joscelyn..was suddenly struck all of a heap by Edward's all alive-oh Grecian girl. 2004 Field Sept. 107/1 With a smile of satisfaction he would pop one into his mouth all alive-o. < as lemmas |
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